κλάδος
klados
branch
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word κλάδος (klados) is defined as a "branch." It is used a total of 11 times in the Bible. This word likely refers to a part of a tree or a stem that grows from a main trunk. In this sense, κλάδος can be used metaphorically to describe a part of a larger entity or a segment of a community. The significance of κλάδος lies in its potential to represent growth, division, or separation. When used in a botanical sense, it highlights the branching nature of trees and plants. In a more figurative sense, it may suggest the splitting of a group or the emergence of a new entity from a larger whole.
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Occurrences in Scripture
11 total occurrences across the text
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”
Matthew 21:8A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.
Matthew 24:32“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
Mark 4:32yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”
Mark 13:28“Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near;
Luke 13:19It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”
Romans 11:16If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
Romans 11:18don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
Romans 11:19You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
Romans 11:21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.