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σταυροῦ (staurou)

σταυροῦ is an Ancient Greek form of σταυρός, meaning “stake”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of σταυρόω, “crucify”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

New Testament, Matthew 27.40: καὶ λέγοντες Ὁ καταλύων τὸν ναὸν καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις οἰκοδομῶν, σῶσον σεαυτόν· εἰ υἱὸς εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ, κατάβηθι απὸ τοῦ σταυροῦ.

New Testament, Luke 23.21: οἱ δὲ ἐπεφώνουν λέγοντες Σταύρου σταύρου αὐτόν.

All forms of σταυρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.