noun · feminine
stibadas
Strong’sG4746
a bough, branch of a tree
stem stibad-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.
** στιβάς, -άδος, ἡ,
[in Aq.: Ez 46:23 (טִירוֺת) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4746 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstoy-bas'
a spread (as if tramped flat) of loose materials for a couch, i.e. (by implication) a bough of a tree so employed
Fromfrom a primary στείβω (to "step" or "stamp");
King Jamesbranch.
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
(στείβω) bed of straw, rushes, or leaves, whether strewn loose NT, or stuffed into a mattress, Refs 5th c.BC+
b straw strewn at a sacrifice, hence as name of the ceremony, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 mattress, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially one used by soldiers, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 generally, bed, Refs
4 nest or lair of mice, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the fish φυκίς, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 grave, Refs
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 | stibadas | stibadais |
| object accusative | stibadan | stibadain1×στιβάδας |
| direct address vocative | stibadar | stibadair |
| of, belonging to genitive | stibadau | stibadaiu |
| to, for dative | stibada | stibadai |
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
stibada 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
stibadain“leafy branches”objectaccusative plural1×
Mark 11:8“leafy branches”… strōnnuala eis tan hodan, allosois de stibadain koptarantois ek toiu agroiu.… the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut from the fields.