Thorn bush
βάτοςStrong’s G0942batos
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Batos is the Greek word usually translated “bush” and “bramble bush”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“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?”
Meaning
Usually translated “bush” and “bramble bush”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- bush 3
- a bramble bush 1
- of a bush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 2
- Acts 2
- Mark 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 6:44For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
- Luke 20:37Now 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.
- Acts 7:30And 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.
- Acts 7:35This 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.
Greek dictionary
βάτος batos · thorn bush
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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUSH, noun
[Latin pasco, originally, to feed on sprouts.]
- A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; also, a cluster of shrubs.
- An assemblage of branches interwoven.
- A branch of a tree fixed or hung out as a tavern sign.
- A circle of metal let into the sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, to prevent their wearing.
All definitions and other forms of “bush”
BUSH, verb intransitive
To grow thick or bushy.
BUSH, verb transitive
To furnish a block with a bush
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.