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Leafy branch

στοιβάς, στιβάςStrong’s G4746

stoibas, stibas

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Stoibas, stibas is the Greek word usually translated “branches”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.”
Mark 11:8 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “branches”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • branches 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Mark 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    στοιβάς, στιβάς stoibas, stibas · leafy branch

    στοιβάς, see: στιβάς. στιβάς, -άδος, ἡ, [in Aq.: Eze.46:23 (טִירוֺת) * ;] a litter of leaves or rushes: pl., Mrk.11:8 (Rec. στοιβ-).† (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

    1. The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough.
    2. 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.
    3. Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.
    4. 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”
    1. Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.
    2. 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.
    3. A warrant or commission given to a pilot.
    4. A chandelier.

    BR'ANCH, verb intransitive

    To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.

    1. To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.
    2. To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.
    3. To have horns shooting out.

    BR'ANCH, verb transitive

    To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.

    1. 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.