Stauros (σταυρός) is a Greek word for a stake or an implement of capital punishment. The Greek New Testament uses the word stauros for the instrument of...
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instrument of Jesus' crucifixion (known in Latin as crux, in Greek as stauros) is generally taken to have been composed of an upright wooden beam to...
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Staurogram (section Abbreviation for stauros)
indicating the coin value. The staurogram was first used to abbreviate stauros (σταυρός), the Greek word for cross, in very early New Testament manuscripts...
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they imitated, when they set up structures on which men are crucified. Stauros (cross) the vile engine is called, and it derives its vile name from him...
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writings are ambiguous. The Koine Greek terms used in the New Testament are stauros (σταυρός) and xylon (ξύλον). The latter means wood (a live tree, timber...
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decussata or saltire). The Greek equivalent of Latin crux "stake, gibbet" is stauros, found in texts of four centuries or more before the gospels and always...
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Cross By Robert Kolb. Lutheran Quarterly (in Italian) Bollettino Staurós, "Staurós Bulletin" founded in 1975[dead link]at Recanati by the Passionists...
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Ancient Greek has two verbs for crucify: anastauroo (ἀνασταυρόω), from stauros (which in modern Greek only means "cross" but which in antiquity was used...
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mantled porphyroblastic character. The name is derived from the Greek, stauros for cross and lithos for stone in reference to the common twinning. Staurolite...
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He is also called Stauros (cross), and we frequently meet with references to the figure of Stauros. Speculations about the Stauros are older than Christianity...
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