botanas

Strong’sG1008

fodder, food

stem botan-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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

βοτάνη [ᾰ], ἡ,
(βόσκω) pasture, Refs 8th c.BC+; β. ἁ λέοντος the lion's pasture, i.e. Nemea, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 fodder, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 herb, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 in plural, plants, as material for making clothes, opposed to δοραί, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 weeds, Refs 4th c.BC+
6 ἱερὰ β., ={περιστερεών}, Refs 1st 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.

crop1×

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	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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

botanan“crop”objectaccusative singular1×

Hebrews 6:7… autau erchorōnton pollakis hueton, kai tiktarōntas botanan euthetan ekeinoi dia hoin kai geōrgotō, …… on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it …