Batos means “bramble” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H942 — bavvay (“Bavai”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G942 βάτος (batos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. batos (bat'-os) n. 1. a brier shrub [of uncertain derivation] It has 10 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include bush and bramble. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
batos (bat'-os) n. 1. a brier shrub [of uncertain derivation] KJV: bramble, bush
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G942. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
thorn bush
Usage: βάτος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ, [in LXX (always masc, as in Attic): Exo.3:2-4, Deu.33:16 (סְנֶה), Job.31:40 (בָּאְשָׁה)* ;] a bramble-bush: Luk.6:44, Act.7:30, 35; ἐπὶ τοῦ (τῆς) β., in the place concerning the bush: Mrk.12:26, Luk.20:37.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render batos, 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 and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G942 (βάτος) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And an angel of the Lord appeared to him in flaming fire out of the bush, and he sees that the bush burns with fire—but the bush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight, why the bush is not consumed.
And when the Lord saw that he drew nigh to see, the Lord called him out of the bush, saying, Moses, Moses; and he said, What is it?
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G942.
And an angel of the Lord appeared to him in flaming fire out of the bush, and he sees that the bush burns with fire—but the bush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight, why the bush is not consumed.
And when the Lord saw that he drew nigh to see, the Lord called him out of the bush, saying, Moses, Moses; and he said, What is it?
And of the fullness of the land in season: And let the things pleasing to him that dwelt in the bush Come on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of him who was glorified above his brethren.
Then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, And a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.
And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G942, grouped by book.
Batos (Strong's G942) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bramble". batos (bat'-os) n. 1. a brier shrub [of uncertain derivation]
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G942 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G942 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bush and bramble. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G942, with linked reader references where each row is available.