Acts 16:24

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell ¹  and fastened their feet in the stocks. ² 

1Ki 22:27; 2Ch 16:10; Job 13:27; Job 33:11; Ps 105:18; Jer 20:2; Jer 29:26; Jer 37:15,16; Jer 38:26; La 3:53-55

¹ tn Or “prison.”

² tn L&N 6.21 has “stocks” for εἰς τὸ ξύλον (ei" to xulon) here, as does BDAG 685 s.v. ξύλον 2.b. However, it is also possible (as mentioned in L&N 18.12) that this does not mean “stocks” but a block of wood (a log or wooden column) in the prison to which prisoners’ feet were chained or tied. Such a possibility is suggested by v. 26, where the “bonds” (“chains”?) of the prisoners loosened.