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βάτος

batos · bush

Greek word · Strong’s number G942 · appears 5 times in the Bible

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What it means

batos (βάτος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “bush”.

Thornbush, bramble.

How to say it

ba·tos

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A thorny shrub; the one that burned before Moses.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Where it appears

  • Mark 12:26

    But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?

  • Luke 6:44

    For each tree is known by its own fruit; for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

  • Luke 20:37

    But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

  • Acts 7:30

    And when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

  • Acts 7:35

    This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ this man God has sent as both ruler and redeemer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.