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Koine Greek wordlink #57801

SR GNT Luke 20:37 βάτου (batou) ‘divulged at the thorn_bush when he is calling the master’ Strongs=9420 Lemma=batos
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=feminine number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (2) of identical word form βάτου (N-GFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘βάτου’ (N-GFS) has 3 different glosses: ‘a thorn_bush’, ‘of a thorn_bush’, ‘thorn_bush’.

Luke 6:44 ‘figs nor from a thorn_bush grapes they are picking’ SR GNT Luke 6:44 word 25

OET-LV: 44 For/Because each tree is _being _known by its own fruit. For/Because they _are_ not _gathering figs from thorns, nor are _they _picking grapes from a_thorn _bush. (LUK_6:44)

OET-RV: 44 but each tree is recognised by the fruit it produces. You don’t pick figs from thistles or pick grapes from thorn bushes. (LUK 6:44)

Acts 7:30 ‘in a flame of fire of a thorn_bush’ SR GNT Acts 7:30 word 26

OET-LV: 30 And forty years having _been _fulfilled: an_messenger was _seen to _him in the wilderness of_ the _Mount Sina/(Şīnay), in a_flame of _fire of_a_thorn _bush. (ACT_7:30)

OET-RV: 30 After another forty years, he was in the wilderness around Mt. Sinai when he saw a messenger in the flame of a burning thorn bush. (ACT 7:30)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘batos’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a thorn_bush’, ‘of a thorn_bush’, ‘batos/(bat)_measures’, ‘thorn_bush’.

Greek words (2) other than βάτου (N-GFS) with a gloss related to ‘thorn_bush’

MARK 12:26 βάτου (batou) N-GMS ‘of Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh) concerning the thorn_bush how spoke to him’ SR GNT Mark 12:26 word 19

OET-LV: 26 But concerning the dead, that they _are _being _raised, not you _all _read in the scroll of _Mōsaʸs concerning the thorn _bush, how the god spoke to _him saying: I am the god of _Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām), and god of _Isaʼak/(Yiʦḩāq), and the god of_Yakōb/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ)? (MRK_12:26)

OET-RV: 26 And as for the state of those who’ve died, didn’t you read in the scriptures about Mosheh when God spoke to him in front of the burning thorn bush and said, ‘I am the god of Abraham and the god of Isaac and the god of Yacob’? (MRK 12:26)

ACTs 7:35 βάτῳ (batōi) N-DFS ‘by him in the thorn_bush’ SR GNT Acts 7:35 word 35

OET-LV: 35 This the Mōsaʸs, whom they _disowned having _said: Who you appointed ruler and judge? This man the god has _sent _out ruler and redeemer, with the_hand of_the_messenger which having _been _seen by _him in the thorn _bush. (ACT_7:35)

OET-RV: 35 This was the same Mosheh that they had previously rejected and asked who had made him ruler and judge over them. Now God had indeed sent him as ruler and liberator by means of the messenger that he saw in the thorn bush. (ACT 7:35)

Key: N=noun DFS=dative,feminine,singular GFS=genitive,feminine,singular GMS=genitive,masculine,singular