Baion means “branch” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H902 — bigvay (“Bigvai”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G902 βαΐον (baion) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. baion (bai"'-on) n. 1. a palm twig (as going out far) [a diminutive of a derivative probably of the base of G939] It has 3 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include palm. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
baion (bai"'-on) n. 1. a palm twig (as going out far) [a diminutive of a derivative probably of the base of G939] KJV: branch Root(s): G939
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G902. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
palm branch
Usage: βαΐον, ου, τό (also βὰϊον, another form of βὰϊς, from the Egyptian), [in LXX: 1Ma.13:51 * ;] (frequently in Egyptian π., see MM, Exp., x) a palm-branch: Jhn.12:13 (DB, i, 314).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render baion, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G902 (βαΐον) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the hundred seventy and first year, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G902.
And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed.
Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
and entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the hundred seventy and first year, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G902, grouped by book.
Baion (Strong's G902) is a Greek word most simply glossed "branch". baion (bai"'-on) n. 1. a palm twig (as going out far) [a diminutive of a derivative probably of the base of G939]
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G902 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G902 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as palm. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G902, with linked reader references where each row is available.