G1008: βοτάνη (botánē)

G1008 βοτάνη (botánē)

Greek

Quick Definition

βοτάνη, ῆς, ἡ n.f. fodder, food

Strong's Definition

from 1006; herbage (as if for grazing)

KJV Usage: herb

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

βοτάνη (G1008)

noun, f. | -ης | βόσκω

3.14 · Plants · Plants That Are Not Trees

plant, grass any of the smaller green plants (in Hellenistic Greek often used in contexts referring to plants as fodder for animals) βοτάνη is more generic in meaning than χόρτος[a], 3.15.

HEB 6:7

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

βοτάνη, -ης, ἡ, (βόσκω), an herb fit for fodder, green herb, growing plant: Heb. vi. 7. (IIom., Pind., Plat., Eur., Diod., Ael., al. Sept. for 8274, V3n, Ivy. [Metaph. of men, Ignat. ad Eph. 10, 3; ad Trall. 6,1; ad Philad. 3, 1].)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

βοτάνη botanē 1x

herb, herbage, produce of the earth, Heb. 6:7*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

βοτάνη, -ῆς, ἡ

(< βόσκω), [in LXX for עֵשֶׂב,דֶשֶׁא,חָצִיר;]

grass, fodder.

green herb: He 6:7.†

SYN.: λάχανον, a garden herb, a vegetable.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

βοτάνη is common in the magic papyri, 6. g. P Lond 461% (iv/A.p.) (=I. p. 71) κυνοκεφάλ(ιον) Bor(avnv)—a herb mentioned by Pliny (4... xxx. 2) as employed for magical purposes (Ed.). In P Amh 11. 91” (A.p. 159) κατασπορὰς βοτανισμούς is rendered by the editors ‘‘ sowing and weeding.” For βοτανισμός see also BGU I. 19717 (a.p. 17), 2. II. 52619. 34 (a.p. 86).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

βοτάνη (botanē) — crop. βοτάνη [ᾰ], ἡ, (βόσκω) pasture, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; β. ἁ λέοντος the lion's pasture, i.e. Nemea, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. fodder, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

3. herb, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

4. in plural, plants, as material for making clothes, opposed to δοραί, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

5. weeds, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

6. ἱερὰ β., ={περιστερεών}, [Refs 1st c.AD+]