Quick Definition
φρύγανον, ου, τό n.n. a dry stick for burning
Strong's Definition
neuter of a presumed derivative of phrugo (to roast or parch; akin to the base of 5395); something desiccated, i.e. a dry twig
KJV Usage: stick
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ου
3.65 · Plants · Wood and Wood Products
dry wood, firewood, sticks dry branches of trees or shrubs broken or cut into suitable lengths for use as firewood
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φρύγανον, -ου, τό, (fr. φρύγω or φρύσσω, φρύττω, to dry, parch; cf. Lat. frigo, frux, fructus), α dry stick, dry twig; generally in the plur. this word comprises all dry sticks, brush-wood, fire-wood, or similar material used as fuel: Acts xxviii. 8. (Hdt. 4,62; Arstph., Thuc., Xen., Philo, al.; Sept. for wp straw, stubble, Is. xl. 24; xli. 2; xlvii. 14; for 5:94 bramble, Job xxx. 7.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φρύγανον phryganon 1x
a dry twig, branch, etc., Acts 28:3*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
φρύγανον, -ου, τό
(< φρύγω, to parch), [in LXX chiefly for קַשׁ, also for חָרוּל, etc. ;]
a dry stick: pl., brushwood: Ac 28:3.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φρύγανον, “‘brushwood ” (Ac 288), as in P Cairo Zen III. ς95173 (iii/B.c.), wages to workmen εἰς συναγωγὴν φρυγάνων, ‘ for the gathering of brushwood.” In Sy// 568 (=* 984)® (end of iv/B.c.) a priest undertakes μηδὲ [φ]έρει(ν) ξύλα μηδὲ κοῦρον (‘branches with leaves”) μηδὲ φρύγανα μηδ[ὲ) φυλλόβολα (‘‘ branches shedding leaves ᾽᾽) ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ. For the new παραφρυγάνισμος, see P Petr 11. 611 (c. B.C. 250), where Mahaffy takes the meaning to be the piling of brushwood bound with clay to raise the banks of the canal. In his Introduction to the vol. p. 28f, he supplies an interesting parallel from Wood’s Sources of the Oxus, p- 22, where we are told that, when the river threatens to cut away its banks, the natives protect them with branches of tamarisk, in order to break the force of the water.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φρύγανον (phruganon) — brushwood. φρύγᾰνον [ῡ], τό, (φρύγω) dry stick; mostly in plural, firewood, [NT+5th c.BC+]: singular only in collective sense ={τὰ φρύγανα}, μαντικῶς τὸ φ. τίθεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. undershrub, opposed to δένδρα, θάμνος, πόα, defined as τὸ ἀπὸ ῥίζης πολυστέλεχες καὶ πολύκλαδον, [Refs 4th c.BC+]