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Koine Greek wordlink #156966

SR GNT Rev 3:12 στῦλον (stulon) ‘overcoming I will_be making him a pillar in the temple’ Strongs=47690 Lemma=stulos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Only use of identical word form στῦλον (N-AMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘στῦλον’ (N-AMS) is always and only glossed as ‘a pillar’.

Rev 3:12 ‘overcoming I will_be making him a pillar in the temple’ SR GNT Rev 3:12 word 6

OET-LV: 12 The one overcoming, I _will _be _making him a_pillar in the temple of _the god of _me, and out by _no _means not he _may _come _out anymore, and I _will _be _writing on him the name of _the god of _me, and the name of _the city of _the god of _me, the new Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim), the one coming _down out _of the heaven from the god of _me, and the name of _me the new. (REV_3:12)

OET-RV: 12 Anyone who’s an overcomer, I’ll make them a pillar in my god’s temple and they’ll never leave it again. I will write my god’s name on them, and the name of my god’s city (the new Jerusalem which will come down out of heaven from my god), and my new name. (REV 3:12)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘stulos’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a pillar’, ‘the pillar’, ‘pillars’.

Greek words (1) other than στῦλον (N-AMS) with a gloss related to ‘pillar’

1 TIM 3:15 στῦλος (stulos) N-NMS ‘the assembly of god the living the pillar and foundation of the’ SR GNT 1 Tim 3:15 word 19

OET-LV: 15 but if I _may _be _slowing, in _order _that you _may _have _known how it _is _fitting to _be _being _conducted in the_household of_god, which is the_assembly of_god the_living, the_pillar and foundation of _the truth. (TI1_3:15)

OET-RV: 15 but if I get delayed, at least you’ll know how to organise God’s household—that is the assembly of the living God—which is the pillar and foundation of the truth. (TI1 3:15)

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular