klados denotes a tree’s limb, used both of growing vegetation and of olive-tree imagery.

The term most often names limbs of actual trees or plants: they provide nesting places, grow large, put out leaves, or are cut and spread on a road. In Romans it is used within an olive-tree comparison, where limbs are broken off, carried by the root, and contrasted with one grafted in.

1. Limbs of trees and large plants · dominant

   In Mark 4:32 the accusative plural occurs with a plant that becomes large and produces great limbs under whose shade birds may dwell; Luke 13:19 and Matthew 13:32 similarly place birds in the limbs of a grown tree. In Mark 13:28 and Matthew 24:32 the nominative singular is the fig tree’s limb that becomes tender and puts out leaves, while Matthew 21:8 has plural limbs cut from trees and spread on the road.

   Luke 13:19Mark 13:28Mark 4:32Matthew 13:32Matthew 21:8Matthew 24:32
2. Olive-tree limbs in a comparison · common

   Romans 11:16 places the plural alongside a holy root; Romans 11:17 and Romans 11:19 describe some limbs as broken off while another tree is grafted in among them. Romans 11:18 says the root carries them, and Romans 11:21 speaks of natural limbs not being spared.

   Romans 11:16Romans 11:17Romans 11:18Romans 11:19Romans 11:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB presents the term as “branch” or “branches,” including fig-tree, mustard-tree, and olive-tree clauses. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation text, these renderings confirm the clauses’ imagery without establishing finer distinctions.