Noun dokos (beam) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more litteral meaning)


Matthew

7: 3Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the beam (dokos) in your own eye?
7: 4Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' while the beam (dokos) is in your own eye?
7: 5You hypocrite, first take the beam (dokos) out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye.

Luke

6: 41Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the beam (dokos) in your own eye?
6: 42Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the beam (dokos) in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the beam (dokos) out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye.

Genesis (LXX)

19: 8But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do ye use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of beams (dokos).

1 Kings (LXX: 3 Kings)

6: 15And he framed the walls of the house within with cedar boards, from the floor of the house and on to the inner walls and to the beams (dokos): he lined the parts enclosed with boards within, and compassed the inward parts of the house with planks of fir.
6: 16And he built the twenty cubits from the top of the wall, one side from the floor to the beams (dokos), and he made it from the oracle to the most holy place.

2 Kings (LXX: 4 Kings)

6: 2Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam (dokos), and make for ourselves a habitation there.
6: 5And behold, one was cutting down a beam (dokos), and the axe head fell into the water: and he cried out, Alas! master: and it was hidden.

2 Chronicles

34: 11They gave it also to the carpenters and builders, to buy squared stones, and timber for beams (dokos) to cover the houses which the kings of Juda had destroyed.

Song of songs

1: 17The beams (dokos) of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.

Letter of Jeremiah

1: 19They are as one of the beams (dokos) of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not.
1: 54Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams (dokos).

Sirach

29: 22Better is the life of a poor man under a shelter of beams (dokos), than delicate fare in another man's house.