Words the Bible translates as stick
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- etsעֵץa tree: a living, growing woody plant, or trees taken together as a kind of vegetation
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- wood: what a tree yields once it is cut, whether as building timber, as fuel, or as the material a thing is made of
- the wooden pole, stake, or tree on which the body of a condemned person is hung up in public
- rhabdosῥάβδοςa staff: a length of wood carried in the hand, to walk with, to strike with, or to keep as a token
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- a scepter: the staff a ruler holds as the sign of his right to govern
- kalamosκάλαμοςa reed: the tall marsh cane, and by extension the everyday things cut from its stalk: a light staff, a writing pen, or a measuring rod
- maqqelמַקֵּלa stick of wood: a rod, staff, or fresh-cut branch carried or used in the hand
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