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Strong's #2798 - κλάδος
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- a young tender shoot, broken off for grafting
- a branch
- as the Jewish patriarchs are likened to a root, so their posterity are likened to branches
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κλάδος [ ᾰ], ου, ὁ,
1. branch, shoot of a tree, Arist. Juv. 468b25, GA 752a20; twig, opp. ἀκρεμών, Thphr. HP 1.1.9, 1.10.7: generally, branch, τῆς ἐλαίης τοὺς κλάδους Hdt. 7.19: presented by suppliants, ἐλαίας θ' ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον A. Eu. 43, cf. Supp. 22 (anap.), S. OT 3, 143; also of laurel branches used in temples, E. Ion 80.
2. plank, POxy. 1738.4, al. (iii A.D.).
3. branch of a blood-vessel, Gal. 15.141.
4. metaph., ἀπὸ νώτοιο δύο κλάδοι ἀΐσσονται two arms, Emp. 29.1.
5. κ. ἐλέας, of a young girl, Epigr.Gr. 368.7: — metapl. forms, dat. κλαδί Scol. 9, prob. in SIG 1025.33 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.); τῇ κ. Ael. NA 4.38 codd. (cf. Eust. 58.37); τῷ κ. Choerob. in Theod. 1.138; acc. κλάδα Lyr.Adesp. 122; cf. κλάδα[ν]· κλάδον, Hsch.; gen. pl. κλαδέων prob. in Philox. 1.3; dat. pl. κλάδεσι Ar. Av. 239 (lyr.), κλαδέεσσι Nic. Fr. 74.19; acc. κλάδας ib.53.
κλάδος, κλαδου, ὁ (κλάω);
a. properly, a young, tender shoot, broken off for grafting.
b. universally, a branch: Matthew 13:32; Matthew 21:8; Matthew 24:32; Mark 4:32; Mark 13:28; Luke 13:19; as the Jewish patriarchs are likened to a root., so their posterity are likened to branches, Romans 11:16-19, 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.)
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κλάδος , -ου , ὁ
(< κλάω ),
[in LXX for H1808, H3709, etc.;]
a young tender shoot broken off for grafting; then, a branch: Matthew 13:32; Matthew 21:8; Matthew 24:32, Mark 4:32; Mark 13:28, Luke 13:19; metaph., of descendants (cf. Sirach 40:15), Romans 11:16-19; Romans 11:21.†
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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).
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