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βάτος

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
βάτος, οῦ, ἡ ανδ ὁ
Greek transliteration: 
batos
Simplified transliteration: 
batos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
943
GK Number: 
1004
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
1
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-2a
Gloss: 
bath (a unit of liquid measure, between eight and nine gallons)
Definition: 
a bath, a measure for liquids, which is stated by Josephus (Ant. 8.57) to contain seventy-two sextarii, or about thirteen and one half gallons. Others estimate it to be nine gallons; and others, seven and one half gallons, Lk. 16:6*

Greek-English Concordance for βάτος

Mark 12:26 But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses in the passage about the bush (batou | βάτου | gen sg masc), how God spoke to him saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?
Luke 6:44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thornbushes, nor do they pick grapes from brambles (batou | βάτου | gen sg fem).
Luke 20:37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses made known, in the passage about the bush (batou | βάτου | gen sg fem), for he calls the Lord, ‘the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’
Acts 7:30 “Now when forty years had passed, there appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai an angel in the flame of a burning bush (batou | βάτου | gen sg masc).
Acts 7:35 This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — this man God sent both as ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush (batō | βάτῳ | dat sg fem).