Original Word: βαΐον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: baion
Phonetic Spelling: (bah-ee'-on)
Short Definition: a palm branch
Definition: a palm branch.STRONGS NT 902: βάϊον

βάϊον (others also βάϊον (or even βάϊον, Chandler edition 1, p. 272); on its derivation (from the Egyptian) cf. Stephanus' Thesaurus under the word βάϊς), βαιου, τό, a palm-branch; with τῶν φονικων added (so Test xii. Patr. test. Naph. § 5) (after the fashion of οἰκοδεσπότης τῆς οἰκίας, ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν (cf. Winer's Grammar, 603 (561))), John 12:13. (A Biblical and ecclesiastical word: 1 Macc. 13:51; Song of Solomon 7:8 Symm.; Leviticus 23:40 unknown translation. In the Greek church Palm-Sunday is called ἡ κυριακῇ τῶν βαΐων. Cf. Fischer, De vitiis Lexicons of the N. T., p. 18ff; (Sturz, Dial. Maced. etc., p. 88f; especially Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word).)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

palm branch

A diminutive of a derivative probably of the base of basis; a palm twig (as going out far) -- branch.

see GREEK basis

Forms and Transliterations

βαια βαϊα βαΐα βακτηρία βακτηρίαι βακτηρίαν βακτηρίας baia baḯa

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