Quick Definition
στοιβάς, άδος, ἡ n.f. a bough, branch of a tree
Strong's Definition
from a primary steibo (to "step" or "stamp"); a spread (as if tramped flat) of loose materials for a couch, i.e. (by implication) a bough of a tree so employed
KJV Usage: branch
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -άδος
3.52 · Plants · Non-Fruit Parts of Plants
leafy branch, rush secondary projection from the trunk or bough of a tree or shrub, with its leaves attached
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
στιβάς, -ados, ἡ, (fr. στείβω ‘to tread on,’ 2 aor. ἔστι: Bov) ; a. a spread or layer of leaves, reeds, rushes, sofi leafy twigs, straw, ete., serving for a bed (Hesych. στιβάς - ἀπὸ ῥάβδων ἢ χλωρῶν χόρτων στρῶσις K. φύλλων) ; so in Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. down. b. that which is used in making a bed of this sort. a branch full of leaves, soft foliage: so Mk. xi. 8 LT Tr WH for στοιβάδας, an orthographical error [see Tdf.’s note ad loc.].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Στοϊκός Stoikos 1x
Stoic, Acts 17:18*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
στοιβάς, v.s. στιβάς.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Στοϊκός it. For such a meaning the commentators have supplied various parallels. Thus in Herod. ii. 113 it is provided that a slave in Egypt may secure virtual emancipation by going to a certain temple of Herakles and having branded upon him στίγματα ipa, to denote his consecration to the god (cf. T. R. Glover Paul of Tarsus, p. 98 f., citing L. R. Farnell Greece and Babylon, p. 194): similarly in Lucian de Dea Syr. 59 it is stated—ori{ovrar δὲ πάντες ot μὲν és καρπούς, οἱ δὲ és αὐχένας, Kal ἀπὸ τοῦδε ἅπαντες ᾿Ασσύριοι στιγματηφορέουσι, and once more in 3 Macc 259 Ptolemy Philopator is described as compelling the Jews to be branded with the ivy-leaf of Dionysus— τούς τε ἀπογραφομένους χαράσσεσθαι, Kal διὰ πυρὸς εἰς τὸ σῶμα παρασήμῳ Διονύσῳ κισσοφύλλῳ. [See also 5.7. χάραγμα for σῆμα as a mark of identity in P Oxy XIV. 16801!.] Most recently Wilcken in the Fes/gabe fiir Adolf Detssmann (Tiibingen, 1927) p. § f. has revived the reference to the practice of the followers of the Syrian goddess, and thinks that the Galatian passage need not mean more than that Paul has given himself over to Jesus for His own (‘dass er sich Jesu zu eigen gegeben habe”). An ex. of the medical use of στίγμα is afforded by the account of a cure in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus, Syil 802 (= *1168)%® (c. B.c. 320) Πάνδαρ]ος Θεσσαλὸς στίγματα ἔχων ἐν τῶι peTHmor οὗτος [ἐγκαθεύδων ὄψιν εἶδε, cf.8%.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
στοιβάς, στιβάς (stoibas, stibas) — leafy branch. στῐβάς, άδος, ἡ, (στείβω) bed of straw, rushes, or leaves, whether strewn loose [NT], or stuffed into a mattress, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __b straw strewn at a sacrifice, hence as name of the ceremony, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. mattress, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially one used by soldiers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. generally, bed, [Refs]
4. nest or lair of mice, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the fish φυκίς, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
5. grave, [Refs]