noun · masculine
sporos
Strong’sG4703
seed for sowing
stem spor-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
σπόρος, -ου, ὁ
(< σπείρω), [in LXX chiefly for זֶרַע;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4703 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidspro'-os
a scattering (of seed), i.e. (concretely) seed (as sown)
Fromfrom G4687;
King Jamesseed (X sown).
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
(σπείρω) sowing, Refs 5th c.BC+; μετὰ τὸν σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 seed-time, Refs 5th c.BC+
II seed, λίνου σ. NT+5th c.BC+
II.2 harvest, crop, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ πρώϊμος σ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; γᾶς σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 offspring, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.4 semen genitale, variant for{γονή} in Refs 5th c.BC+
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 nominative | sporos2×σπόρος | sporois |
| object accusative | sporon4×σπόρον | sporoin |
| direct address vocative | sporor | sporoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sporou | sporoiu |
| to, for dative | sporo | sporoi |
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
sporo 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
sporos“seed”subjectnominative singular2×
Mark 4:27… egeroteiō nuktan kai hēmeran, kai tos sporos blastateiō kai mēkunoteiō hōs ouk oidatē …… he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows …
Luke 8:11Atō de houtas tas parabolas; Tos sporos atō tos logos tou theou.… the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
sporon“seed”objectaccusative singular4×
Mark 4:26… tou theou hōs anthrōpos balateia ton sporon epi tau gēau… is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
Luke 8:5Exerchata tos sperarōntos teu sperara ton sporon autou. kai en te sperarō auton …… farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some …
2 Corinthians 9:10tos de epichorēgarōntos sporon to sperarōnto kai arton eis brōsian …Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for …
2 Corinthians 9:10… eis brōsian chorēgati kai plēthunati ton sporon vu kai auxanati teim genēmeim tau …… supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of …