noun · feminine

sporas

Greekσπορά (spora)

Strong’sG4701

seed

stem spor-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

seed1×

What it means

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.

Every form

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

sporos — σπόρος, seed for sowing

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

sporau“seed”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

1 Peter 1:23“seed”anagennirētois ouk ek sporau fthartau alla afthartau, dia logou zōarōtou theou kai menarōtou;For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.