Greek noun (feminine) · G942
βάτος
batosbat'-os
thorn bush
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bátos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G942is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G942
a brier shrub
The King James renders it: bramble, bush.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
batos is rendered "thorn bush". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 12:26But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
Mark 12:26βάτου
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bush2
- a bramble bush1
- bush —1
- of a bush1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βάτος | batos | bath | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βάτου4
- βάτῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
Mark
one use
But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
- βάτουbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: bush
Luke
two uses
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
- βάτουbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: a bramble bush
Even 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.’
- βάτουbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: bush
Acts
two uses
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
- βάτουbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of a bush
This 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.
- βάτῳbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: bush —
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.