sporas

Strong’sG4701

seed

stem spor-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.

σπορά, -ᾶς, ἡ

(< σπείρω), [in LXX: IV Ki 19:29 (זרע), I Mac 10:30 *;]

1. a sowing.

2. seedtime.

3. seed sown (of human offspring, Soph., Tr., 316, 420): I Pe 1:23

(cf. σπέρμα, and v. Milligan, NTD, 105 f.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4701 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidspor-ah'

a sowing, i.e. (by implication) parentage

Fromfrom G4687;

King Jamesseed.

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

σπορ-ά, ἡ,
(σπείρω) sowing of seed, σπερμάτων Refs 5th c.BC+
b of children, σπορᾶς γε μὴν ἐκ τῆσδε from this origin, Refs 4th c.BC+; τοιοῦτος ὢν τοιῷδ᾽ ὀνειδίζεις σπορά; his origin, birth.. ? Refs 5th c.BC+; procreation, παίδων, γένους, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν Ῥωμύλου σ. begetting, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 seed-time, sowing-time, ἀπὸ τῆς σ. Refs 4th c.BC+; δεκέτεσιν σποραῖσιν in the tenth seed-time, i.e. year, Refs 5th c.BC+
II seed, NT; field sown, ξηρὰ σ. dry land, uncertain reading in Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. δράκοντος ground sown with the dragon's teeth, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b of persons, seed, offspring, Refs 4th c.BC+: plural, young ones, uncertain in Refs 5th c.BC+. the female race, Refs; θήλεια σ. Refs

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.

seed1×

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 nominative	sporas	sporais
object accusative	sporan	sporain
direct address vocative	sporar	sporair
of, belonging to genitive	sporau1×σπορᾶς	sporaiu
to, for dative	spora	sporai

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

sporstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

spora 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

sporos — σπόρος, seed for sowing

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

sporau“seed”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

1 Peter 1:23anagennorēntois ouk ek sporau fthartau alla afthartau, dia logou zōarōntou …… been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living …