Definition
βάτος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ,
[in LXX (always masc, as in Attic): Exodus 3:2-4, Deuteronomy 33:16 (סְנֶה), Job 31:40 (בָּאְשָׁה)* ;]
a bramble-bush: Luke 6:44, Acts 7:30, 35; ἐπὶ τοῦ (τῆς) β., in the place concerning the bush: Mark 12:26, Luke 20:37.
Hebrew words it translates
The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as βάτος:
- סְנֶהse.neh“bush”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
5 total
- Mark 12:26Βάτου · [burning] bushBut concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
- Luke 6:44βάτου · bramblesFor each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
- Luke 20:37Βάτου · [ burning ] bushEven Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
- Acts 7:30βάτου · bushAfter forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
- Acts 7:35βάτῳ · bushThis Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.