Branch
κλάδοςStrong’s G2798klados
Appears in 11 verses of the New Testament
In short
Klados is the Greek word usually translated “branches” and “branch”. It appears in 11 verses of the New Testament.
“Which 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.”
Meaning
Usually translated “branches” and “branch”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- branches 9
- branch 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 5
- Matthew 3
- Mark 2
- Luke 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Greek dictionary
κλάδος klados · branch
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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “branch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BR'ANCH, noun
- The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough.
- Any arm or extended part shooting or extended from the main body of a thing; as the branch of a candlestick or of an artery.
- Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.
- Any individual of a family descending in a collateral line; any descendant from a common parent or stock.
All definitions and other forms of “branch”
- Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.
- In architecture, branches of ogives are the arches of Gothic vaults, traversing from one angle to another diagonally, and forming a cross between the other arches, which make the sides of the square, of which these arches are diagonals.
- A warrant or commission given to a pilot.
- A chandelier.
BR'ANCH, verb intransitive
To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.
- To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.
- To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.
- To have horns shooting out.
BR'ANCH, verb transitive
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.
- To adorn with needle work, representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
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.