Strong G942βάτος

thorn bush

Transliteration
batos
Pronunciation
bat'-os
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

Of uncertain derivation; a brier shrub: - bramble bush.

Detailed definition

βάτος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ,
[in LXX (always masc, as in Attic): Exo.3:2-4, Deu.33:16 (סְנֶה), Job.31:40 (בָּאְשָׁה)*;]
a bramble-bush: Luk.6:44, Act.7:30, 35; ἐπὶ τοῦ (τῆς) β., in the place concerning the bush: Mrk.12:26, Luk.20:37.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G942 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • bush5

First verses

  1. Mark 12:26
    And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
  2. Luke 6:44
    For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
  3. Luke 20:37
    Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
  4. Acts 7:30
    And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
  5. Acts 7:35
    This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
βάτος[ᾰ], ἡ,

A bramble, Rubus ulmifolius, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.230, Aen. Tact. 28.6, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.132)]; ὁ, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.112, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 754 (_Attic dialect_ _accusative_ to Moeris), 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.5.3, LXX.Exo.3.2: whence ἐπὶ τοῦ (variant{τῆς}) βάτου in NT.Mark.12.26: _feminine_, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.37, NT.Luke.20.37.)]
A.II β. Ἰδαία raspberry, Rubus Idaeus, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.38)]; ={β. ὀρθοφυής} [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.18.4.)]
A.III β. Μοσυλῖτις, a kind of cassia, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.13.)]
A.IV ={ἑλένιον}, elecampane, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.28.)]