noun · neuter
sitiem
Strong’sG4621
wheat, grain
stem siti-once in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
σιτίον, -ου, τό
(dimin. of σῖτος), [in LXX: Pr 24:57 (30:22) (לֶחֶם) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4621 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsee'-tos
grain, especially wheat
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamescorn, wheat.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
irregular plural σῖτα, τά, Refs 6th c.BC+:— grain, comprehending both wheat (πυρός) and barley (κριθή), ἐν [Ἰθάκῃ] σ. ἀθέσφατος ἐν δέ τε οἶνος γίγνεται Refs 8th c.BC+; περὶ σίτου ἐκβολήν about the shooting of the corn into ear, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ σ. ἀκμάζοντος at its ripening, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ἀληλεσμένος or -εμένος ground corn, Refs 5th c.BC+; σίτου εἰσαγωγή, ἐξαγωγή, Refs 5th c.BC+; comprehending πυρός, κριθή, ὄλυρα, and φακός, Refs 2nd c.BC+; περὶ τοῦ σ. καὶ τοῦ σησάμου Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὁ σ. καὶ τὰ λάχανα as examples of πόα, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 food made from grain, bread, opposed to flesh-meat, σ. καὶ κρέα Refs 8th c.BC+; σῖτον ἔδοντες, a general epithet of men as opposed to to beasts, ὅσσοι νῦν βροτοί εἰσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ σ. ἔδ. Refs 8th c.BC+; of savages, who eat flesh only, οὐδέ τι σῖτον ἤσθιον Refs 8th c.BC+; of civilized men, σῖτον καὶ σπείρουσι καὶ σιτέονται Refs 5th c.BC+; κάρδαμον ἔχειν ἐπὶ τῷ σ. Refs; πίνειν ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τῷ σRefs 1st c.AD+
3 in a wider sense, food, as opposed to to drink, σ. ἠδὲ ποτής Refs 8th c.BC+; even of porridge (κυκεών),Refs 8th c.BC+; εὐνὴ καὶ σ. Refs 8th c.BC+; provisions, σῖτα ἀναιρέεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; παρέχειν μέχρι τριάκοντα ἡμερῶν σ. Foed. cited in Refs 5th c.BC+
4 rarely of beasts, fodder, Refs 8th c.BC+—In the general sense of food, Prose writers prefer the diminutive form σιτία, τά.
II in Attic dialect Law, allowance of grain made to widows and orphans. σῖτον διδόναι, ἀποδιδόναι, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 δίκην σίτου δικάσασθαι, bring an action under the Athen. Corn-law against regraters and monopolists, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 allowance made to the Ἱππεῖς, Refs
II.4 public distribution of corn in Rome, Latin frumentatio, τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ σίτου ὄντα ἐν Ῥώμῃ Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | sitiem | sitieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sitieu | sitieiu |
| to, for dative | sitie | sitiei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
sitie is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sitieim1×
Acts 7:12akouarantos de Iakōb arōnteim sitieim eis Aiguptan exapostelata toin patroin nu …When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers …