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G2798 κλάδος (kládos)
Greek
Noun, Masculine
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Quick Definition

a branch

Strong's Definition

a twig or bough (as if broken off)

Derivation: from G2806 (κλάω);

KJV Usage: branch

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κλάδος, κλαδου, ὁ (κλάω); a. properly, a young, tender shoot, broken off for grafting. b. universally, a branch: Mat_13:32; Mat_21:8; Mat_24:32; Mar_4:32; Mar_13:28; Luk_13:19; as the Jewish patriarchs are likened to a root., so their posterity are likened to branches, Rom_11:16-19; Rom_11:21; cf. Sir_23:25 Sir_40:15; Menander fragment, Meineke edition, p. 247 (fragment 182, vol. iv. 274 (Ber. 1841)). (Tragg., Aristophanes, Theophrastus, Geoponica, others.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

κλάδος klados 11x a bough, branch, shoot, Mat_13:32 ; Mat_21:8 ; met. a branch of a family stock, Rom_11:16 ; Rom_11:21 branch.

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

κλάδος , -ου , ὁ ( < κλάω ), [in LXX for H1808 , H3709 , etc.;] a young tender shoot broken off for grafting; then, a branch: Mat_13:32 ; Mat_21:8 ; Mat_24:32 , Mar_4:32 ; Mar_13:28 , Luk_13:19 ; metaph ., of descendants ( cf. Sir_40:15 ), Rom_11:16-19 ; Rom_11:21 .†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

κλάδος [page 345] P Oxy IX. 1188 .3 (A.D. 13) ἀπὸ περσέας ζωφυτο (ύσης ) κλάδον ἕνα , ib. I. 121 .17 (iii/A.D.) τοὺς κλάδους ἔνικον ( l. ἔνεγκον ) εἰς τὴν ὁδόν . In the sepulchral epitaph Kaibel 368 .7 a girl is described as a branch of olive Θεοδώρα , κλάδος ἐλέας , ταχὺ πῶς ἐμαράνθης ; MGr κλαδί (κλαρί ).

Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon

κλάδος κλά^δος, ου, [Etym: κλάω] "a young slip or shoot broken off": esp. "an olive-branch" wound round with wool and presented by suppliants, Hdt. , Aesch. , Soph.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

κλάδος, -ου, ὁ (κλάω), [in LXX for דָּלִיָּה, כַּף, etc. ;] a young tender shoot broken off for grafting; then, a branch: Mat.13:32 21:8 24:32, Mrk.4:32 13:28, Luk.13:19; metaphorically, of descendants (cf. Sir.40:15), Rom.11:16-19, 21.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (11)

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