thorn bush
batos denotes a thorny shrub in Moses-related scenes and a measured quantity of olive oil in Luke 16:6.
The predominant use identifies a thorny shrub in the wilderness appearance to Moses, in references to the Moses passage, and in a saying about fruit gathered from plants. Luke 16:6 shows a distinct plural use within an accounting exchange concerning olive oil.
Senses in use
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Thorny shrub in Moses scenes and plant imagery · dominant
The singular forms occur in the account of an angel appearing to Moses in a flame in Acts 7:30 and in the angel's appearance to him in Acts 7:35; the APB renders those clauses with “burning thorn bush” and “bush.” In Luke 20:37 and Mark 12:26, the genitive singular marks the passage or scene in which God spoke to Moses, while Luke 6:44 places the same form in the statement that figs are not collected from thorns and grapes are not harvested from a thorn bush.
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Quantity in an olive-oil account · rare
In Luke 16:6, the accusative plural masculine form occurs after “A hundred” in an exchange about olive oil, followed by the instruction to write fifty. The APB renders the verse with “measures of olive oil,”.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the plant-related verses, the APB uses “thorn bush,” “bush,” and “thorns” in the surrounding clauses. In Luke 16:6 it instead renders the accounting context as “measures of olive oil”; these renderings reflect whole-verse translations rather than a word-for-word alignment.