Strong G46902 sensesσπέρμα
seed: offspring · seed(s)
- Transliteration
- sperma
- Pronunciation
- sper'-mah
The 2 senses of Strong G4690
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong G4690 appears in 41 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
From G4687; somethng sown that is seed (including the male sperm); by implication offspring; specifically a remnant (figuratively as if kept over for planting): - issue seed.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- seed40
- to4
- in1
- issue1
First verses
- 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 13:27So 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 13:32Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
- Matthew 13:37He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
- Matthew 13:38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
- Matthew 22:24Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- Matthew 22:25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
- Mark 4:31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
- Mark 12:19Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- Mark 12:20Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
- Mark 12:21And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
- Mark 12:22And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
- Luke 1:55As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
- Luke 20:28Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- John 7:42Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
- John 8:33They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
- John 8:37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
- Acts 3:25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
- Acts 7:5And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
- Acts 7:6And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.