Definition

timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance

Etymology

from another form of the base of G3582 (ξέστης);

Word family

• ξέστης xéstēs

How the KJV renders it

• staff
• stocks
• tree
• wood

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.