noun
batos
Strong’sG942
a thorn bush; a bath (liquid measure)
stem bat-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 20 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
It means a bramble or thorn bush 1234.
It also means a bath, a liquid measure 34, a Hebrew measure 3.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Biblang's gloss. Condensed by qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
βάτος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ,
[in LXX (always masc, as in Attic): Ex 3:2-4, De 33:16 (סְנֶה), Jb 31:40 (בָּאְשָׁה)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G942 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbat'-os
a brier shrub
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesbramble, bush.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
A bramble, Rubus ulmifolius, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὁ, NT+5th c.BC+
A.II β. Ἰδαία raspberry, Rubus Idaeus, Refs 1st c.AD+; ={β. ὀρθοφυής} Refs 4th c.BC+
A.III β. Μοσυλῖτις, a kind of cassia, Refs 1st c.AD+
A.IV ={ἑλένιον}, elecampane, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
βάτος ὁ,
the Hebrew liquid measure
C bath, = Egypt. ἀρτάβη or Attic dialect μετρητής, LXX+NT+1st c.AD+:—also βάδος, variant in LXX+5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | feminine singular | masculine singular | feminine plural | masculine plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | batas | batos | batais | batois |
| object accusative | batan | baton | batain | batoin1×βάτους |
| direct address vocative | batar | bator | batair | batoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | batau3×βάτου | batou1×βάτου | bataiu | batoiu |
| to, for dative | bata1×βάτῳ | bato | batai | batoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
bat is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
batau“bush”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Luke 6:44“bramble bush”… ek akanthaiu sullegalō sukeim, oude ek batau stafulan trugalō.… fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
Luke 20:37… nekrois kai Mōusos mēnuata epi tau batau, hōs legatō kurion ton theon Abraam …… in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the …
Acts 7:30… oreu Sina angelos en floga pureu batau;… in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
bata“bush”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 7:35… angelou tou horirantou auto en ta bata.… who appeared to him in the bush.
batou“bush”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Mark 12:26… en ta bibla Mōusou epi tou batou pōs legata auto tos theos legarōntos; …… you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how …
batoin“measures”objectaccusative plural1×
Luke 16:6tos de legata; Hekaton batoin elaieu; tos de legata auto; Dechesar …‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take …