Luke 8:7

Luke 8:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
• New International Version (NIV)Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.

Context of Luke 8:7

5“The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air ate it up. 6Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out. 8Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great.” As He said these things, He would call out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” 9His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant.

Luke 8:7 word by word

καὶ ἕτερον ἔπεσεν ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἀκανθῶν, καὶ συμφυεῖσαι αἱ ἄκανθαι ἀπέπνιξαν αὐτό.Read the interlinear

• Otherἕτεροςheteros · otherG2087
• fellπίπτωpiptō petō · to collapseG4098
• amongἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• amongμέσοςmesos · midstG3319
• the thornsἄκανθαakantha · a thornG173
• grewσυμφύωsumphuō · to grow withG4855
• up with it and chokedἀποπνίγωapopnigō · to chokeG638

Cross-references for Luke 8:7

• Luke 8:14The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
• Luke 21:34“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;
• Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;
• Jeremiah 4:3For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.
• Matthew 13:7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.
• Mark 4:7Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
• Hebrews 6:7For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

Commentaries on Luke 8:7

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4-15Verses 4-15 See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-23.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-21Verses 4-21 There are many very needful and excellent rules and cautions for hearing the word, in the parable of the sower, and the application of it. Happy are we, and for ever indebted to free grace, if the same thing that is a parable to others, with which they are only amused, is a plain truth to us, by which we are taught and governed. We ought to take heed of the things that will hinder our profiting by the word we hear; to take heed lest we hear…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7fell among thorns: One type of weed looked very much like wheat as it grew, but it had larger roots and took away the moisture and nutrients that the wheat needed.Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 8:7

• Agriculture
• Character
• Converts
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Minister, Christian
• Sower
• Word of God

In the dictionaries

• Choke
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• Jeopardy
• Possess
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• Jesus Christ
• Luke, the Gospel of
• sow, sower, plant, planted, replanted, transplanted

Commentaries on Luke 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings