diff --git a/g3581-g3590/g3586.md b/g3581-g3590/g3586.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..88d28106 --- /dev/null +++ b/g3581-g3590/g3586.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# ξύλον/xulon +This word is a type of thing. It is a noun. +* This word can mean tree. +* This word can mean wood. +* This word can mean a piece of wood used to hit someone. +* This word can mean stocks. These are pieces of wood used to hold the feet of a person in prison so that he cannot move them. +* This word can mean cross. A cross was an upright wooden post stuck into the ground with a wooden beam going across it near the top. During the time of the Roman Empire, the Roman government killed criminals by tying or nailing them to a cross and leaving them there to die.