What does στοιβάς (stoibás) mean in the Bible?
στοιβάς (stoibás): Leafy branches or rushes spread as bedding, specifically palm fronds in triumphal processions.
Greek · G4746
στοιβάς
στοιβάς (stoibás): Leafy branches or rushes spread as bedding, specifically palm fronds in triumphal processions.
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στοιβάςG4746
Pronunciationstoibás
What does στοιβάς (stoibás) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G4746?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include branches (1).
Where does στοιβάς (stoibás) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 11:8. Its strongest book concentrations include Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
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How English Renders Itbranches1×Mark 11:8
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First aligned rowMark 11:8
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Mark1
Source forms
στιβάδας1xstibadasMark 11:8
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural1xMark 11:8
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Leafy branches or rushes spread as bedding, specifically palm fronds in triumphal processions.
Source Gloss
leafy branch
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Mark 11:8Noun Accusative Plural Feminine
στοιβάδαςstoibadav
a bough, branch of a tree
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.