Strong G2798κλάδος
branch
- Transliteration
- klados
- Pronunciation
- klad'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From G2806; a twig or bough (as if broken off): - branch.
Detailed definition
κλάδος, -ου, ὁ
(κλάω), [in LXX for דָּלִיָּה, כַּף, etc.;]
a young tender shoot broken off for grafting; then, a branch: Mat.13:32 21:8 24:32, Mrk.4:32 13:28, Luk.13:19; metaphorically, of descendants (cf. Sir.40:15), Rom.11:16-19, 21.†
(AS)
(κλάω), [in LXX for דָּלִיָּה, כַּף, etc.;]
a young tender shoot broken off for grafting; then, a branch: Mat.13:32 21:8 24:32, Mrk.4:32 13:28, Luk.13:19; metaphorically, of descendants (cf. Sir.40:15), Rom.11:16-19, 21.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2798 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- branch11
- the1
First verses
- Matthew 13:32Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
- Matthew 21:8And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
- Matthew 24:32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
- Mark 4:32But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
- Mark 13:28Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
- Luke 13:19It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
- Romans 11:16For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
- Romans 11:17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Romans 11:18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
- Romans 11:19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
- Romans 11:21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κλάδος [ᾰ], ου, ὁ,
branch, shoot of a tree, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Juventute” 468b25, “GA” 752a20)]; twig, opposed to ἀκρεμών, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.1.9, 1.10.7)]: generally, branch, τῆς ἐλαίης τοὺς κλάδους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.19)]: presented by suppliants, ἐλαίας θ᾽ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 43, compare “Supp.” 22 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 3, 143)]; also of laurel branches used in temples, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 80.)]
2 plank, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 1738.4, +others (3rd c.AD).)]
3 branch of a blood-vessel, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.141.)]
4 metaphorically, ἀπὸ νώτοιο δύο κλάδοι ἀΐσσονται two arms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 29.1.)]
5 κ. ἐλέας, of a young girl, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“epigram Gr.” 368.7:—metapl. forms, _dative_ κλαδί “Scol.” 9, probably in “SIG” 1025.33 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC))]; τῇ κ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.38 codices (compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 58.37); τῷ κ. 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.138; _accusative_ κλάδα “Lyrica Adespota” 122)]; compare κλάδα[ν]· κλάδον, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; genitive plural κλαδέων probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 1.3; _dative_ _plural_ κλάδεσι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 239 (Lyric poetry))], Epic dialect κλαδέεσσι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.19; _accusative_ κλάδας [prev. work]53.)]
branch, shoot of a tree, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Juventute” 468b25, “GA” 752a20)]; twig, opposed to ἀκρεμών, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.1.9, 1.10.7)]: generally, branch, τῆς ἐλαίης τοὺς κλάδους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.19)]: presented by suppliants, ἐλαίας θ᾽ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 43, compare “Supp.” 22 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 3, 143)]; also of laurel branches used in temples, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 80.)]
2 plank, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 1738.4, +others (3rd c.AD).)]
3 branch of a blood-vessel, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.141.)]
4 metaphorically, ἀπὸ νώτοιο δύο κλάδοι ἀΐσσονται two arms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 29.1.)]
5 κ. ἐλέας, of a young girl, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“epigram Gr.” 368.7:—metapl. forms, _dative_ κλαδί “Scol.” 9, probably in “SIG” 1025.33 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC))]; τῇ κ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.38 codices (compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 58.37); τῷ κ. 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.138; _accusative_ κλάδα “Lyrica Adespota” 122)]; compare κλάδα[ν]· κλάδον, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; genitive plural κλαδέων probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 1.3; _dative_ _plural_ κλάδεσι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 239 (Lyric poetry))], Epic dialect κλαδέεσσι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.19; _accusative_ κλάδας [prev. work]53.)]