noun · masculine
blastos
Strong’sG986
Blastus
stem blast-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Βλάστος, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G986 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidblas'-tos
Blastus, an officer of Herod Agrippa
Fromperhaps the same as the base of G985;
King JamesBlastus.
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
shoot, Refs 5th c.BC+; bud, Refs 4th c.BC+; embryo, germ, Refs; ὁ τοῦ β. καιρός, i. e. Spring, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 blossom, β. κρίνου LXX
II offsprmg, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | blastos | blastois |
| object accusative | blaston1×Βλάστον | blastoin |
| direct address vocative | blastor | blastoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | blastou | blastoiu |
| to, for dative | blasto | blastoi |
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
blasto 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
blaston“Blastus”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 12:20… de pareiale pros auton, kai peitharantois Blaston ton epi tou koitōnou tou basilevou …… him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for …