Βλάστος
Blastus
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G986 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
Βλαστος — transliterated Blástos — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Blastus.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Acts 12:20. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G986 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Blastus 1×
- American Standard Version: Blastus 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Blastus 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Blastus 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G986 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G986 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G986 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G986 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Blastus = "sprout"
- the chamberlain of Herod Agrippa I
Word origin
Derived from βλαστανω (blastánō) (G985) — to sprout.
Perhaps the same as the base of G985 ; Blastus an officer of herod Agrippa : - Blastus.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Blastus). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Chamberlain to king Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:20). Such persons generally had great influence with their masters.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(sprout), the chamberlain of Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:20)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that buds or brings forth
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Βλαστος appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 7 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 40:10 βλαστός
- Exodus 38:15 βλαστός
- Numbers 17:23 βλαστός
- 1 Kings 7:12 βλαστός
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 βλαστός
- Job 15:30 βλαστός
- Ezekiel 17:8 βλαστός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G986) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 40:10 βλαστός and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes.
- Genesis 49:9 βλαστός Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, As a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
- Exodus 38:15 βλαστός and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Numbers 17:23 βλαστός
- 1 Kings 7:12 βλαστός The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 βλαστός It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
- Job 15:30 βλαστός He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
- Job 30:12 βλαστός On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
- Ezekiel 17:8 βλαστός It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
- Ezekiel 17:23 βλαστός in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches of it shall they dwell.
- Ezekiel 19:10 βλαστός Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G986) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
