κλάδος
kládos · G2798 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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A secondary woody stem arising from the trunk or bough of a tree or shrub (branch (of a tree or woody shrub))
ExamplesMatthew 13:32 and this is smaller than all the other seeds, but when it is fully grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that THE BIRDS OF THE SKY come and NEST IN ITS BRANCHES.”
Matthew 21:8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.
Matthew 24:32 “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: as soon as its branch has become tender and sprouts its leaves, you know that summer is near;
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέγαςgreat, large 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκκλάωto break off 2
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- κόπτωto mourn, to cut 1
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
- φείδομαιto spare 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπαλόςtender 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- דָּלִיָּה dâlîyâh · H1808 · branch
- Hebrew דָּלִיָּה (dâlîyâh, H1808) and Greek κλάδος (kládos, G2798) both denote a branch or bough broken/cut from a tree, with semantic overlap in the concrete imagery of separated plant limbs.
- פְּאֹרָה pᵉʼôrâh · H6288 · branch, bough
- Both denote a branch or bough as a structural part of a tree; Greek κλάδος emphasizes the broken-off quality (used in olive/vine branch contexts), while Hebrew פְּאֹרָה occurs in prophetic tree imagery (Ezekiel) with similar semantic range.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Branch (of a tree or woody shrub)3.49
- κλάδος names a branch or bough of a tree. Romans 11:17 pictures Israel and the Gentiles under the image of an olive tree, describing how “some of the branches were broken off,” the κλάδοι being those very branches removed from the tree.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κλαδου, ὁ (κλάω); a. properly, a young, tender shoot, broken off for grafting. b.…
a. properly, a young, tender shoot, broken off for grafting.
b. universally, a branch: Mt 13:32; Mt 21:8; Mt 24:32; Mk 4:32; Mk 13:28; Lk 13:19; as the Jewish patriarchs are likened to a root., so their posterity are likened to branches, Rom 11:16-19, Rom 11:21; cf. Sir. 23:25 Sir. 40:15; Menander fragment, Meineke edition, p. 247 (fragment 182, vol. iv. 274 (Ber. 1841)). (Tragg., Aristophanes, Theophrastus, Geoponica, others.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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