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σταυρός/stauros

This word is a type of thing or idea. It is a noun.

  • This word means cross.
    • A cross was an upright wooden post stuck into the ground with a horizontal wooden beam attached to it near the top. During the time of the Roman Empire, the Roman government executed criminals by tying or nailing them to a cross and leaving them there to die.
    • Sometimes this word is used to talk about Jesuss sacrificial death on the cross.
    • Sometimes this word is used to talk about something that is in some way like a cross.