noun · neuter
zizaniem
Strong’sG2215
spurious wheat, darnel
stem zizani-8 times in the New Testament2 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.
* ζιζάνιον, -ου, τό
(in Talmud זוּנִין),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2215 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddziz-an'-ee-on
darnel or false grain
Fromof uncertain origin;
King Jamestares.
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
a weed that grows in wheat, ={αἶρα} 11, probably darnel, Lolium temulentum, NT. (Cf. Sumer. zizân 'wheat'.)
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 | zizaniem | zizanieim3×ζιζάνια |
| of, belonging to genitive | zizanieu | zizanieiu1×ζιζανίων |
| to, for dative | zizanie | zizaniei |
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
zizanie 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
zizanieim“weeds”subject or objectdirect plural3×
Matthew 13:26… karpon poiata, tote fanita kai teim zizanieim.… sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
Matthew 13:38… tois huiois tau basileiau; teim de zizanieim alō tois huiois tou ponērou,… the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil …
Matthew 13:40hōsper oun sullegotō teim zizanieim kai pure kaiotō, houtōs eti en …As the weeds are collected and burned in the …
zizanieiu“weeds”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Matthew 13:36… legarōntois; Diasafasar ni tan parabolan teiu zizanieiu tou agrou.… to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
zizanieim4×
Matthew 13:25… erchata autou tos echthros kai epispeirata zizanieim ana mesem tou sitou kai aperchata.… asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
Matthew 13:27… to so agro? pothen oun echatō zizanieim?… your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
Matthew 13:29… de fēatō; Ou, mēpote sullegarōntois teim zizanieim ekrizaveia hama autoi ton siton;… he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat …
Matthew 13:30… legami toi theristoi; Sullegavar prōtem teim zizanieim kai davar auteim eis desmain pros …… tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to …