Strong G4621σῖτος
grain
- Transliteration
- sitos
- Pronunciation
- see'-tos
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
σῖταsita see'-tah is the plural irregular neuter of the first form. Of uncertain derivation;
grain especially wheat: - corn wheat.
grain especially wheat: - corn wheat.
Detailed definition
σῖτος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for דָּגָן;]
wheat, corn: Mat.3:12 13:25, 29-30 Mrk.4:28, Luk.3:17 12:18 16:7 22:32, Jhn.12:24, Act.27:38, 1Co.15:37, Rev.6:6 18:13.†
σιτίοι, -ου, τό
(dimin. of σῖτος), [in LXX: Pro.30:22 (לֶחֶם)*;]
1. corn, grain: Act.7:12 (but see 131., § 9, 1).
2. Mostly in pl., σιτία, bread, food, provisions (LXX, l.with, Hdt., al.).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for דָּגָן;]
wheat, corn: Mat.3:12 13:25, 29-30 Mrk.4:28, Luk.3:17 12:18 16:7 22:32, Jhn.12:24, Act.27:38, 1Co.15:37, Rev.6:6 18:13.†
σιτίοι, -ου, τό
(dimin. of σῖτος), [in LXX: Pro.30:22 (לֶחֶם)*;]
1. corn, grain: Act.7:12 (but see 131., § 9, 1).
2. Mostly in pl., σιτία, bread, food, provisions (LXX, l.with, Hdt., al.).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4621 appears in 14 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wheat12
- corn2
- the1
First verses
- Matthew 3:12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
- Matthew 13:25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
- Matthew 13:29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
- Matthew 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
- Mark 4:28For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
- Luke 3:17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
- Luke 16:7Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
- Luke 22:31And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
- John 12:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
- Acts 7:12But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
- Acts 27:38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
- 1 Corinthians 15:37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
- Revelation 6:6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
- Revelation 18:13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σῖτος, ὁ,
irregular plural σῖτα, τά, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 2.8, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128, 5.34 (_neuter_ _sing._ σῖτον only “Delph.” 3(5).3 ii 19 (4th c.BC)))]:— grain, comprehending both wheat (πυρός) and barley (κριθή), ἐν [Ἰθάκῃ] σ. ἀθέσφατος ἐν δέ τε οἶνος γίγνεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.244)]; περὶ σίτου ἐκβολήν about the shooting of the corn into ear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.1)]; τοῦ σ. ἀκμάζοντος at its ripening, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.19; πρὶν τὸν σ. ἐν ἀκμῇ εἶναι [prev. author] 4.2; τὸν νέον σ. σὺν τῇ καλάμῃ ἀποκείμενον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.27)]; σ. ἀληλεσμένος or -εμένος ground corn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26; σ. ἀπηλοημένος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 42.6; σῖτον ἐσαγαγεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.6, etc.; σ. ἐπείσακτος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.87)]; σίτου εἰσαγωγή, ἐξαγωγή, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1133b9, “IG” 12.57.35; συγκομιδή 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.14; ἐγδοχεία “PMich.Zen.” 23 (3rd c.BC))]; comprehending πυρός, κριθή, ὄλυρα, and φακός, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 66.41 (2nd c.BC))]; περὶ τοῦ σ. καὶ τοῦ σησάμου [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PMich.Zen.” 43.3 (3rd c.BC))]; ὁ σ. καὶ τὰ λάχανα as examples of πόα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.3.1.)]
2 food made from grain, bread, opposed to flesh-meat, σ. καὶ κρέα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.9, 12.19, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.168)]; σῖτον ἔδοντες, a general epithet of men as opposed to to beasts, ὅσσοι νῦν βροτοί εἰσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ σ. ἔδ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.222, compare 9.89)]; of savages, who eat flesh only, οὐδέ τι σῖτον ἤσθιον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 146)]; of civilized men, σῖτον καὶ σπείρουσι καὶ σιτέονται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17; σωρὸν σίτου κεχυμένον [prev. author] 1.22; ἐσθίειν ἐπὶ τῷ σ. ὄψον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.14.2)]; κάρδαμον ἔχειν ἐπὶ τῷ σ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.2.11)]; πίνειν ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τῷ σ[Refs 1st c.AD+ (. [prev. work] 6.2.27, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 29, with [prev. author] 2.328f.)]
3 in a wider sense, food, as opposed to to drink, σ. ἠδὲ ποτής [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.87, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.306; σ. καὶ οἶνος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.479, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.706; σ. καὶ μέθυ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.746, etc.)]; even of porridge (κυκεών),[Refs 8th c.BC+ (10.235; σῖτα καὶ ποτά 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.34, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.27; σ. ποιεῖν καὶ οἶνον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 372a; ἄκμηνος σίτοιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.163, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 182)]; εὐνὴ καὶ σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.130, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.129; ὕπνον καὶ σ. αἱρεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75)]; provisions, σῖτα ἀναιρέεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128; παρέχειν σῖτα καὶ νέας [prev. author] 7.21)]; παρέχειν μέχρι τριάκοντα ἡμερῶν σ. Foed. cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.47.)]
4 rarely of beasts, fodder, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 604, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 383 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 4.1.)]—In the general sense of food, Prose writers prefer the diminutive form σιτία, τά.
II in Attic dialect Law, allowance of grain made to widows and orphans. σῖτον διδόναι, ἀποδιδόναι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.15, 28.11, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 56.7.)]
II.2 δίκην σίτου δικάσασθαι, bring an action under the Athen. Corn-law against regraters and monopolists, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.9, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.52.)]
II.3 allowance made to the Ἱππεῖς, [Refs (“IG” 12.304.4, +others)]
II.4 public distribution of corn in Rome, Latin frumentatio, τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ σίτου ὄντα ἐν Ῥώμῃ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.10.2.)]
irregular plural σῖτα, τά, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 2.8, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128, 5.34 (_neuter_ _sing._ σῖτον only “Delph.” 3(5).3 ii 19 (4th c.BC)))]:— grain, comprehending both wheat (πυρός) and barley (κριθή), ἐν [Ἰθάκῃ] σ. ἀθέσφατος ἐν δέ τε οἶνος γίγνεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.244)]; περὶ σίτου ἐκβολήν about the shooting of the corn into ear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.1)]; τοῦ σ. ἀκμάζοντος at its ripening, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.19; πρὶν τὸν σ. ἐν ἀκμῇ εἶναι [prev. author] 4.2; τὸν νέον σ. σὺν τῇ καλάμῃ ἀποκείμενον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.27)]; σ. ἀληλεσμένος or -εμένος ground corn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26; σ. ἀπηλοημένος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 42.6; σῖτον ἐσαγαγεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.6, etc.; σ. ἐπείσακτος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.87)]; σίτου εἰσαγωγή, ἐξαγωγή, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1133b9, “IG” 12.57.35; συγκομιδή 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.14; ἐγδοχεία “PMich.Zen.” 23 (3rd c.BC))]; comprehending πυρός, κριθή, ὄλυρα, and φακός, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 66.41 (2nd c.BC))]; περὶ τοῦ σ. καὶ τοῦ σησάμου [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PMich.Zen.” 43.3 (3rd c.BC))]; ὁ σ. καὶ τὰ λάχανα as examples of πόα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.3.1.)]
2 food made from grain, bread, opposed to flesh-meat, σ. καὶ κρέα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.9, 12.19, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.168)]; σῖτον ἔδοντες, a general epithet of men as opposed to to beasts, ὅσσοι νῦν βροτοί εἰσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ σ. ἔδ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.222, compare 9.89)]; of savages, who eat flesh only, οὐδέ τι σῖτον ἤσθιον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 146)]; of civilized men, σῖτον καὶ σπείρουσι καὶ σιτέονται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17; σωρὸν σίτου κεχυμένον [prev. author] 1.22; ἐσθίειν ἐπὶ τῷ σ. ὄψον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.14.2)]; κάρδαμον ἔχειν ἐπὶ τῷ σ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.2.11)]; πίνειν ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τῷ σ[Refs 1st c.AD+ (. [prev. work] 6.2.27, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 29, with [prev. author] 2.328f.)]
3 in a wider sense, food, as opposed to to drink, σ. ἠδὲ ποτής [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.87, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.306; σ. καὶ οἶνος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.479, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.706; σ. καὶ μέθυ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.746, etc.)]; even of porridge (κυκεών),[Refs 8th c.BC+ (10.235; σῖτα καὶ ποτά 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.34, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.27; σ. ποιεῖν καὶ οἶνον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 372a; ἄκμηνος σίτοιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.163, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 182)]; εὐνὴ καὶ σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.130, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.129; ὕπνον καὶ σ. αἱρεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75)]; provisions, σῖτα ἀναιρέεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128; παρέχειν σῖτα καὶ νέας [prev. author] 7.21)]; παρέχειν μέχρι τριάκοντα ἡμερῶν σ. Foed. cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.47.)]
4 rarely of beasts, fodder, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 604, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 383 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 4.1.)]—In the general sense of food, Prose writers prefer the diminutive form σιτία, τά.
II in Attic dialect Law, allowance of grain made to widows and orphans. σῖτον διδόναι, ἀποδιδόναι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.15, 28.11, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 56.7.)]
II.2 δίκην σίτου δικάσασθαι, bring an action under the Athen. Corn-law against regraters and monopolists, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.9, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.52.)]
II.3 allowance made to the Ἱππεῖς, [Refs (“IG” 12.304.4, +others)]
II.4 public distribution of corn in Rome, Latin frumentatio, τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ σίτου ὄντα ἐν Ῥώμῃ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.10.2.)]