Stauros means cross?

Question

Every time a Jehovah's Witness brings up the greek word "stauros" and points out that it's literal translation is "stake" several questions come to mind that I'll ask here:

Where did you (or the NWT translation committee) get its degree in ancient greek?

More importantly, if they used the word "stauros" to only mean a simple upright stake...what was the greek word used that describes the traditional "T" shaped cross?

Answer 1

Stavros definitely means cross.

http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon

Go into this site and key in  ' stavros'

Answer 2

Whatever the greek means, the New Testament was written in Hebrew, and the Greek might or might not have been a reasonable translation.

Answer 3

Just as the KJV uses at Galatians 3:13 a quote from Deuteronomy 21:22-23,  "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a TREE."

Or stauros meaning pole.

It is widely agreed by many Greek scholars it does not mean cross who are not Jehovah's Witnesses.

The cross is even more widely known and accepted to have originated with the worship of Nimrod, the Babylonian ruler that made himself worshiped as a god in direct opposition to Jehovah God.

Answer 4

Actually stauros means an upright pole, or one piece of timber,  not a cross, sorry to disappoint.

Actually the "new testament" was written in Koine Greek.