Word Study · Strong's G942 · Greek
βάτος
batos
bat'-os
Strong's 1890 spelling: bátos
“a brier shrub”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a brier shrub
Rendered in the KJV as
bramble, bush.
- 5occurrencesin the New Testament
- 3 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 5 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- βάτου3
- βάτου.1
- βάτῳ.1
How it is rendered · 4
- bush2
- a bramble bush1
- bush —.1
- of a bush.1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1
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- N-GSF · 4
- N-DSF · 1
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Where this word lives
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Luke2 occurrences
- Luke 6:44βάτουbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularFor each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.here: a bramble bush
- Luke 20:37βάτουbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularEven Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’here: bush
Acts2 occurrences
- Acts 7:30βάτου.batounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularAfter forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.here: of a bush.
- Acts 7:35βάτῳ.batōnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singularThis Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.here: bush —.
Same headword in Strong's