Greek verb · G985
βλαστάνω
blastanoblas-tan'-o
to sprout; In late Gk., causal
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: blastánō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G985is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G985
to germinate; by implication, to yield fruit
The King James renders it: bring forth, bud, spring (up).
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
blastano is rendered "to sprout; In late Gk., causal". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to sprout".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:26When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
Matthew 13:26ἐβλάστησεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to sprout, and In late Gk., causal.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to sproutMat.13:26 | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 13:26When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared. |
| In late Gk., causalto make to grow, produce | Tagged as
| WhereJames 5:18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops. |
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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ἐβλάστησεν2
- βλαστᾷ1
- βλαστήσασα1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-AAP-NSF
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-PAS-3S
Matthew
one use
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
- ἐβλάστησενeblastesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sprouted
Mark
one use
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
- βλαστᾷblastaverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may sprout
Hebrews
one use
containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
- βλαστήσασαblastesasaverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having budded
James
one use
Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
- ἐβλάστησενeblastesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: produced
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.