noun · feminine

botanas

Greekβοτάνη (botanē)

Strong’sG1008

fodder, food

stem botan-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

crop1×

What it means

βοτάνη, -ῆς, ἡ

(< βόσκω), [in LXX for עֵשֶׂב,דֶשֶׁא,חָצִיר;]

1. grass, fodder.

2. green herb: He 6:7.†

SYN.: λάχανον, a garden herb, a vegetable.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1008 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbot-an'-ay

herbage (as if for grazing)

Fromfrom G1006;

King Jamesherb.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	botanas	botanais
object accusative	botanan1×βοτάνην	botanain
direct address vocative	botanar	botanair
of, belonging to genitive	botanau	botanaiu
to, for dative	botana	botanai

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

botanstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

botana 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

botanan“crop”objectaccusative singular1×

Hebrews 6:7“crop”gēas gar tas pinaratas ton epi autau ercherōton pollakis hueton, kai tiktarōtas botanan euthetan ekeinoi dia hoin kai geōrgitō, metalambatō eulogiau apo tou theou;For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.