Stake

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Stake may refer to:

, the 2003 Xbox game
Sudis (stake), field fortification carried by Roman legionaries
Stake (Mormonism), in the LDS church, an administrative unit composed of multiple congregrations
In folklore and mythology, a wooden stake, along with a silver bullet, have special powers to kill monsters, see vampire, werewolf
Execution by burning, to ancient Christians, a stake was a pole to which people accused of heresy or witchcraft were tied and "burned at the stake"
In gambling, a stake is the quantity of money or other goods that is risked on the outcome of some specific event
According to the belief of Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus was impaled on a single-beamed "stake". The "New World Translation" of the Bible refers to the instrument of Christ's death as a "torture stake" (from the available New Testament manuscripts, this is translation used from the Greek word stau·ros´ and also as xy·lon in the case of the instrument used to execute Jesus). Note that while the connotation of stau·ros´ communicates the idea of a cross or crucifix, this was not the case during the time of the Jesus and his apostles; only long after Christ's death did the term come to be primarily associated with the cross. Additionally, xy·lon never refers to a double-beamed cross and is sometimes translated as "tree" in some Bible translations.
: ''This is opposed to the double-beamed cross or crucifix.
A stake is a long, pointed object thrust into the ground. Stakes have many applications, such as demarcating a small plot of land, anchoring guy ropes for a tent or other portable structure, or slowly releasing fertilizer to aid the growth of plants
A stake is a polished iron shape, very firmly mounted, used by silversmiths in the manner of a blacksmith's anvil

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