Quick Definition
βλαστάνω v. I sprout, cause to sprout, make to grow up
Strong's Definition
from blastos (a sprout); to germinate; by implication, to yield fruit
KJV Usage: bring forth, bud, spring (up)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor. ἐβλάστησα
23.195 · Physiological Processes and States · Grow, Growth
to sprout, to sprout leaves to begin vegetative growth, with special emphasis upon the sprouting of leaves The initial stages of growth, either of a plant as a whole or in the renewal of foliage after a winter or dry season, may be expressed in a number of ways, for example, ‘to become green again,’ ‘to show leaves,’ ‘to see leaves begin,’ or ‘when leaves unfold.’
23.199 · Physiological Processes and States · Ripen, Produce Fruit, Bear Seed
Collocation: καρπὸν βλαστάνω
to bear fruit, to produce fruit, to produce seed, to yield to produce fruit or seed (of plants)
1 By setting up certain highly generic meanings for βλαστάνω, δίδωμι, ἀποδίδωμι, and ποιέω, it would be possible to treat the phrase compounds in this series as being semantically endocentric. However, it seems more satisfactory to regard them as what might be called low-grade idioms with specialized meanings of the semantically head expressions.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βλαστάνω, 3 pers. sing. pres. subj. βλαστᾷ fr. the form βλαστάω, Mk. iv. 27 LT Tr WH (cf. B. 55 (48); [Ecel. ii. 6; Herm. sim. 4, 1 sq.]); 1 aor. ἐβλάστησα (cf. W. 84 (80); [B. l-e¢.]); 1. intransitively, to sprout, bud, put forth leaves: Mk. iv. 27; Mt. xiii. 26; Heb. ix. 4; (Num. xvii. 8; Joel ii. 22, ete.; in Grk. writ. fr. Pind. down). 2. in later Grk. writ. transitively, to produce: τὸν καρπόν, Jas. v.18. (Gen. i. 11, etc.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βλαστάνω blastanō 4x
also spelled βλαστάω, intrans. to germinate, bud, sprout, spring up, Mt. 13:26; Mk. 4:27; Heb. 9:4; trans. and causative, to cause to shoot, to produce, yield, Jas. 5:18*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βλαστάνω,
[in LXX for צמח, etc.;]
to sprout: Mt 13:26, Mk 4:27, He 9:4.
In late Gk., causal, to make to grow, produce: c. acc., Ja 5:18.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βλαστάνω. For the transitive use of β. (as Jas 518) see Aristeas 230, αἱ (sc. χάριτες) βλαστάνουσιν εὔνοιαν. The subst. βλάστημα (as Sir 5012) is found in P Lond 131 σερίοῖϑδ (a.p. 78-9) (=I. p. 175) τὰ περισσὰ βλαστήματα, and for βλαστολογέω = ‘pick off young shoots,” see 7.°°". See also 7GZ VII. 496° βλαστήματα καλῶν τέκνων. Biaotoc. For this proper name, as Acts 127° cf. A/echel (Cyzicus, 11.8.6.) Αἰνείας Βλαστοῦ (so Michel accents).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βλαστάνω (blastanō) — to sprout. βλαστάνω, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (later βλαστέω, [Refs 4th c.BC+], corrupt in passive -ουμένη[Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect imperfect βλαστάνεσκε (variant{βλάστεσκεν}) [Refs]: future βλαστήσω [Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist 2 ἔβλαστον [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἐβλάστησα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect βεβλάστηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐβεβλαστήκει [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—bud, sprout, grow, properly of plants, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦ βλαστὸς οὐκ ἔβλαστε; [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. metaphoricallyin Poets, shoot forth, come to light, βλάστε νᾶσος ἐξ ἁλός, of Rhodes, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of children, to be born, [Refs]; ἀνθρώπου φύσιν βλαστών born in man's nature, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; not common in Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. causal, make to grow, produce, propagate, in present, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: mostly aorist 1 ἐβλάστησα [LXX+3rd c.BC+]:—passive, βλαστηθείς [Refs 1st c.AD+]