Context: Whereas most Christians believe the gibbet on which Jesus was executed was the traditional two-beamed cross, the Jehovah's Witnesses hold the view that a single upright stake was used. The Greek and Latin words used in the earliest Christian writings are ambiguous. The Koine Greek terms used in the New Testament are stauros (σταυρός) and xylon (ξύλον). The latter means wood (a live tree, timber or an object constructed of wood); in earlier forms of Greek, the former term meant an upright stake or pole, but in Koine Greek it was used also to mean a cross. The Latin word crux was also applied to objects other than a cross.

Question: What kind of cross is generally believed that Jesus was crucified on?
Answer: traditional two-beamed cross

Question: What cross do Jehovah Witnesses claim Jesus was crucified on?
Answer: single upright stake

Question: What causes the different accounts of the cross used?
Answer: The Greek and Latin words used in the earliest Christian writings are ambiguous

Question: What latin word was used to describe the cross used?
Answer: crux

Question: Why was there doubt about the Latin word?
Answer: crux was also applied to objects other than a cross

Question: What terms did Jehovah's Witnesses use to describe a cross?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is the definition of koine?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What objects were the word gibbet also applied to?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is the nature of the words Jehovah's Witnesses use to describe wood?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What language did Jehovah's Witnesses base their religious writings on?
Answer: Unanswerable