Branch
κλῆμαStrong’s G2814klēma
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Klēma is the Greek word usually translated “branch” and “branches”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.”
Meaning
Usually translated “branch” and “branches”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- branch 3
- branches 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- John 15:4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
- John 15:5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
- John 15:6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Greek dictionary
κλῆμα klēma · branch
κλῆμα, -τος, τό (κλάω), [in LXX chiefly for זְמוֹרָה, דָּלִיָּה, Eze.15:2 17:6-7, al. ;] a vine-twig, vine-branch: Jhn.15:2, 4-6.† (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.