Strong G4687σπείρω
to sow
- Transliteration
- speirō
- Pronunciation
- spi'-ro
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Probably strengthened from G4685 (through the idea of extending); to scatter that is sow (literally or figuratively): - sow (-er) receive seed.
Detailed definition
σπείρω
[in LXX chiefly for זָרַע;]
to sow (seed): absol., Mat.6:26 13:3-4, 18 25:24, 26, Mrk.4:3-4, Luk.8:5 12:24, Jhn.4:36, 2Co.9:10; with accusative of thing(s), Mat.13:24, 27 13:37, 39, Mrk.4:32, Luk.8:5, 1Co.15:36-37; before εἰς, Mat.13:22, Mrk.4:18; ἐν, Mat.13:24, 31; ἐπί, with genitive, Mrk.4:31; ἐπί, with accusative, Mat.13:20, 23, Mrk.4:16, 20; παρά, with accusative, Mat.13:19. Metaphorical: 1Co.9:11 15:42-44, Gal.6:7-8, Jas.3:18; in proverbial sayings, Mat.25:24, 26, Luk.19:21-22, Jhn.4:37, 2Co.9:6, Gal.6:7; in interpretation of parables, Mat.13:19-23 Mrk.4:14-20 †
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for זָרַע;]
to sow (seed): absol., Mat.6:26 13:3-4, 18 25:24, 26, Mrk.4:3-4, Luk.8:5 12:24, Jhn.4:36, 2Co.9:10; with accusative of thing(s), Mat.13:24, 27 13:37, 39, Mrk.4:32, Luk.8:5, 1Co.15:36-37; before εἰς, Mat.13:22, Mrk.4:18; ἐν, Mat.13:24, 31; ἐπί, with genitive, Mrk.4:31; ἐπί, with accusative, Mat.13:20, 23, Mrk.4:16, 20; παρά, with accusative, Mat.13:19. Metaphorical: 1Co.9:11 15:42-44, Gal.6:7-8, Jas.3:18; in proverbial sayings, Mat.25:24, 26, Luk.19:21-22, Jhn.4:37, 2Co.9:6, Gal.6:7; in interpretation of parables, Mat.13:19-23 Mrk.4:14-20 †
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4687 appears in 42 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- sow14
- sown13
- soweth7
- sower6
- thou5
- seed3
- didst1
- do1
- he1
- receive1
- sowest1
- they1
First verses
- Matthew 6:26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Matthew 13:3And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
- Matthew 13:4And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
- Matthew 13:18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
- Matthew 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
- Matthew 13:20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
- Matthew 13:22He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
- Matthew 13:23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- Matthew 13:24Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
- Matthew 13:25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
- Matthew 13:27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
- Matthew 13:31Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
- Matthew 13:37He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
- Matthew 13:39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
- Matthew 25:24Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
- Matthew 25:26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
- Mark 4:3Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
- Mark 4:4And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
- Mark 4:14The sower soweth the word.
- Mark 4:15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
σπείρω,
Aeolic dialect σπέρρω[Refs (Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.117 H., “Etymologicum Magnum” 300.19)]: Ionic dialect imperfect σπείρεσκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.42)]: future σπερῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 79, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 276d)]; Aeolic dialect σπέρσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 202)]: aorist ἔσπειρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 754 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 41c)]: perfect ἔσπαρκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 2.1.1, etc.)]:—middle, aorist infinitive σπείρασθαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1028)]; aorist 2 σπαρέσθαι uncertain reading in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 8.26)]:—passive, future σπᾰρήσομαι [LXX+1st c.BC+ (LXX.Nah.1.14, (δια-) 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.69:)]aorist ἐσπάρην [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1498, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.27)]: perfect ἔσπαρμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1098, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1206, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 693a, etc.)]:— sow,
I sow seed, with accusative, [κέγχρους] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 399; σῖτον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17; στάχυν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 121)]; of Cadmus, σ. γηγενῆ στάχυν [Refs ([prev. author] “Ba.” 264)] (so in middle, σπείρασθαι ὀδόντας [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1028))]: absolutely, sow, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 391)]; opposed to θερίζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 710, etc.: _metaphorically_, θερ. καὶ σ. ταῖς γλώσσαις, of corrupt orators, [prev. work] 1697 (Lyric poetry))]; καρπὸν ὧν ἔσπειρε θερίζειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 260d; αἰσχρῶς μὲν ἔσπειρας κακῶς δὲ ἐθέρισας 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista 16: proverbial, εἰς πέτρας τε καὶ λίθους σ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 838e)]; σ. κατὰ πετρῶν, i.e. εἰς πέλαγος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (compare (σπέρμα 1.1), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 20.)]
I.2 engender, beget offspring [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare(11.2), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1293, “Tr.” 33, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 49, etc.)]; οἱ σπείραντες the parents, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 3.1339, compare 14.1794 (from Rome))]; ἄθυτα παλλακῶν σπέρματα σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 841d)]:—passive, spring or be born, ὅθενπερ αὐτὸς ἐσπάρη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1498, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 554 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 460b)]; πρὸ τοῦ Ζήνωνα.. σπαρῆναι before Z. was begotten, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.110 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
I.3 scatter like seed, strew, χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107; σ. φλόγα “Tragica Adespota” 85)]; of liquids, scatter or sprinkle, ἐκ τευχέων σ. δρόσον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 167)]; spread abroad, extend, σ. ἀγλαΐαν νάς ῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.13)]; spread rumour, σ. ματαίαν βάξιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 642)]; μὴ σπεῖρε πολλοῖς τὸν παρόντα δαίμονα do not speak of it indiscriminately, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 653)]:—passive, to be scattered or dispersed, ἐσπαρμένος κατὰ.. πόλιν, of the ashes of Solon scattered over Salamis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 228; τόξα δ᾽ ἔσπαρται πέδῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1098)]; of persons, ἐσπάρησαν καθ᾽ Ἑλλάδα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.27; ἐσπαρμένοι εἰς ἁρπαγήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.22)]; κατὰ χώραν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 6.2.17; ἔσπαρται λόγος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 846 cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1206.)]
II sow a field, νειόν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 463)]; γῆν, τέμενος, πεδιάδα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.42, 9.116, 122; ἄρουραν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 158)]; ἡ σπειρομένη Αἴγυπτος the arable part of Egypt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.77; τυχεῖν μὲν ἤδη 'σπαρμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1140; ἀροῦται καὶ σπείρεται τὸ Θηβαίων ἄστυ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.24: proverbial, πόντον σπείρειν)], of lost labour, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 106, 107: _metaphorically_, καινοτάταις σ. διανοίαις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1044; σ. εἰς ἀρετῆς ἔκφυσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 777e; τοὺς ἐν γράμμασι κήπους [prev. author] “Phdr.” 276d.)]
II.2 of procreation, ματρὸς.. σ. ἄρουραν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 754; σ. τέκνων ἄλοκα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 18; σ. λέχη [prev. author] “Ion” 64)]; ἣν ἔσπειρε, i.e. his wife, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 37.9; see above 1.2.)]
Aeolic dialect σπέρρω[Refs (Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.117 H., “Etymologicum Magnum” 300.19)]: Ionic dialect imperfect σπείρεσκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.42)]: future σπερῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 79, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 276d)]; Aeolic dialect σπέρσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 202)]: aorist ἔσπειρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 754 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 41c)]: perfect ἔσπαρκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 2.1.1, etc.)]:—middle, aorist infinitive σπείρασθαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1028)]; aorist 2 σπαρέσθαι uncertain reading in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 8.26)]:—passive, future σπᾰρήσομαι [LXX+1st c.BC+ (LXX.Nah.1.14, (δια-) 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.69:)]aorist ἐσπάρην [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1498, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.27)]: perfect ἔσπαρμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1098, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1206, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 693a, etc.)]:— sow,
I sow seed, with accusative, [κέγχρους] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 399; σῖτον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17; στάχυν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 121)]; of Cadmus, σ. γηγενῆ στάχυν [Refs ([prev. author] “Ba.” 264)] (so in middle, σπείρασθαι ὀδόντας [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1028))]: absolutely, sow, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 391)]; opposed to θερίζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 710, etc.: _metaphorically_, θερ. καὶ σ. ταῖς γλώσσαις, of corrupt orators, [prev. work] 1697 (Lyric poetry))]; καρπὸν ὧν ἔσπειρε θερίζειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 260d; αἰσχρῶς μὲν ἔσπειρας κακῶς δὲ ἐθέρισας 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista 16: proverbial, εἰς πέτρας τε καὶ λίθους σ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 838e)]; σ. κατὰ πετρῶν, i.e. εἰς πέλαγος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (compare (σπέρμα 1.1), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 20.)]
I.2 engender, beget offspring [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare(11.2), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1293, “Tr.” 33, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 49, etc.)]; οἱ σπείραντες the parents, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 3.1339, compare 14.1794 (from Rome))]; ἄθυτα παλλακῶν σπέρματα σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 841d)]:—passive, spring or be born, ὅθενπερ αὐτὸς ἐσπάρη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1498, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 554 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 460b)]; πρὸ τοῦ Ζήνωνα.. σπαρῆναι before Z. was begotten, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.110 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
I.3 scatter like seed, strew, χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107; σ. φλόγα “Tragica Adespota” 85)]; of liquids, scatter or sprinkle, ἐκ τευχέων σ. δρόσον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 167)]; spread abroad, extend, σ. ἀγλαΐαν νάς ῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.13)]; spread rumour, σ. ματαίαν βάξιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 642)]; μὴ σπεῖρε πολλοῖς τὸν παρόντα δαίμονα do not speak of it indiscriminately, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 653)]:—passive, to be scattered or dispersed, ἐσπαρμένος κατὰ.. πόλιν, of the ashes of Solon scattered over Salamis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 228; τόξα δ᾽ ἔσπαρται πέδῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1098)]; of persons, ἐσπάρησαν καθ᾽ Ἑλλάδα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.27; ἐσπαρμένοι εἰς ἁρπαγήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.22)]; κατὰ χώραν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 6.2.17; ἔσπαρται λόγος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 846 cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1206.)]
II sow a field, νειόν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 463)]; γῆν, τέμενος, πεδιάδα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.42, 9.116, 122; ἄρουραν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 158)]; ἡ σπειρομένη Αἴγυπτος the arable part of Egypt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.77; τυχεῖν μὲν ἤδη 'σπαρμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1140; ἀροῦται καὶ σπείρεται τὸ Θηβαίων ἄστυ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.24: proverbial, πόντον σπείρειν)], of lost labour, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 106, 107: _metaphorically_, καινοτάταις σ. διανοίαις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1044; σ. εἰς ἀρετῆς ἔκφυσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 777e; τοὺς ἐν γράμμασι κήπους [prev. author] “Phdr.” 276d.)]
II.2 of procreation, ματρὸς.. σ. ἄρουραν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 754; σ. τέκνων ἄλοκα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 18; σ. λέχη [prev. author] “Ion” 64)]; ἣν ἔσπειρε, i.e. his wife, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 37.9; see above 1.2.)]