Strong's #4716: stauros (pronounced stow-ros')

from the base of 2476; a stake or post (as set upright), i.e. (specially), a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); figuratively, exposure to death, i.e. self-denial; by implication, the atonement of Christ:--cross.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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stauros

1) an upright stake, especially a pointed one

2) a cross

2a) a well known instrument of most cruel and ignominious punishment, borrowed by the Greeks and Romans from the Phoenicians; to it were affixed among the Romans, down to the time of Constantine the Great, the guiltiest criminals, particularly the basest slaves, robbers, the authors and abetters of insurrections, and occasionally in the provinces, at the arbitrary pleasure of the governors, upright and peaceable men also, and even Roman citizens themselves

2b) the crucifixion which Christ underwent

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from the base of G2476

Citing in TDNT: 7:572, 1071

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Matthew 10:38: "that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me,"
Matthew 16:24: "and take up his cross, and follow me."
Matthew 27:32: "to bear his cross."
Matthew 27:40: "come down from the cross."
Matthew 27:42: "let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him."
Mark 8:34: "and take up his cross, and follow me."
Mark 10:21: "come, take up the cross, and follow me."
Mark 15:21: "to bear his cross."
Mark 15:30: "come down from the cross."
Mark 15:32: "now from the cross, that we may see and believe."
Luke 9:23: "and take up his cross daily, and follow"
Luke 14:27: "doth not bear his cross, and come after me,"
Luke 23:26: "the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus."
John 19:17: "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called"
John 19:19: "put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS"
John 19:25: "there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and"
John 19:31: "remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for"
1 Corinthians 1:17: "of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect."
1 Corinthians 1:18: "preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;"
Galatians 5:11: "is the offense of the cross ceased."
Galatians 6:12: "lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ."
Galatians 6:14: "should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus"
Ephesians 2:16: "body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:"
Philippians 2:8: "death, even the death of the cross."
Philippians 3:18: "that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:"
Colossians 1:20: "the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things"
Colossians 2:14: "way, nailing it to his cross;"
Hebrews 12:2: "that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down"