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βάτος

bátos · G942 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Thing

Meanings

  1. thorn plant, thistle, brier

    Any kind of plant with sharp projections on its stem and/or branches; regarded as useless; symbol of hardship

    Examples

    Mark 12:26 “But regarding the fact that the dead rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB’?

    Luke 6:44 “For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

    Luke 20:37 “But as for the fact that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed this in the passage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
ἄκανθα ákantha · G173 · thorn plant, thistle, brier
Both terms denote a thorny or spiny plant, occupying nearly identical botanical senses — genuine convergence in the semantic space of spiny vegetation such as thistles or briers.
In the other Testament 1 word
סְנֶה çᵉneh · H5572 · bush, shrub
Hebrew term for the burning bush of Exodus 3:2–4, consistently rendered by this Greek term in the LXX; both denote a thorny or bramble-type shrub, with the Greek carrying broader botanical range beyond the Exodus referent.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Thorn plant, thistle, brier3.16
Used of the thorny plant itself, as of the burning bush Moses saw in Luke 20:37 and Acts 7:30, 7:35, and Mark 12:26.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βάτου, ἡ and (in Mk 12:26 G L T Tr WH) ὁ, (the latter according to Moeris, Attic; the…
βάτου, ἡ and (in Mk 12:26 G L T Tr WH) ὁ, (the latter according to Moeris, Attic; the former Hellenistic; cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 532; Winers Grammar, 63 (62) (cf. 36; Buttmann, 12 (11))) (from Homer down), a thorn or bramble-bush (cf. B. D., under the word ): Lk 6:44; Acts 7:30, Acts 7:35; ἐπί τοῦ (τῆς) βάτου at the Bush, i. e. where it tells about the Bush, Mk 12:26; Lk 20:37; cf. Fritzsche on Rom 11:2; (B. D., under the word IV. 1).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Plants That Are Not Trees5 occurrencesSpecific Measures of Volume0 occurrences

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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