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Lexicon :: Strong's G4687 - speirō

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σπείρω
Transliteration
speirō (Key)
Pronunciation
spi'-ro
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably strengthened from σπάω (G4685) (through the idea of extending)
mGNT
53x in 22 unique form(s) TR
53x in 20 unique form(s) LXX
55x in 25 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:536,1065

Strong’s Definitions

†σπείρω speírō, spi'-ro; probably strengthened from G4685 (through the idea of extending); to scatter, i.e. sow (literally or figuratively):—sow(- er), receive seed.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's G4687 in the following manner: sow (43x), sower (6x), receive seed (4x), variations of 'sow' (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's G4687 in the following manner: sow (43x), sower (6x), receive seed (4x), variations of 'sow' (1x).

  1. to sow, scatter, seed

  2. metaph. of proverbial sayings

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†σπείρω speírō, spi'-ro; probably strengthened from G4685 (through the idea of extending); to scatter, i.e. sow (literally or figuratively):—sow(- er), receive seed.
STRONGS G4687:
σπείρω; (imperfect 2 person singular ἐσπειρες, Matthew 13:27 Tr); 1 aorist ἔσπειρα; passive, present σπείρομαι; perfect passive participle ἐσπαρμενος; 2 aorist ἐσπάρην; (derived from the quick, jerky, motion of the hand; cf. our spurn (of the foot); Curtius, § 389); from Hesiod down; the Sept. for זָרַע; to sow, scatter seed;
a. properly: absolutely, Matthew 6:26; Matthew 13:3f, 18; Mark 4:3f, 14; Luke 8:5; Luke 12:24; (John 5:36f (see in b.)); 2 Corinthians 9:10; with an accusative of the thing, as σπέρμα ζιζάνια, κόκκον (cf. Buttmann, § 131, 5): Matthew 13:24f (but in 25 L T Tr WH have ἐπέσπειρεν), 27,37,39; Mark 4:32: Luke 8:5; 1 Corinthians 15:36f; with specifications of place: εἰς τάς ἀκάνθας, Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:18; ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ, Matthew 13:24 (31); ἐπί τῆς γῆς. Mark 4:31; ἐπί with an accusative of place, Matthew 13:20, 23; Mark 4:16, 20; παρά τήν ὁδόν, Matthew 13:19.
b. in proverbial sayings: absolutely, Matthew 25:24, 26; Luke 19:21; John 4:37; 2 Corinthians 9:6; τί, Galatians 6:7 (on these sayings see θερίζω, b.). in comparisons: σπρίειν εἰς τήν σάρκα, εἰς τό πνεῦμα (σάρξ and πνεῦμα are likened to fields to be sown), to do those things which satisfy the nature and promptings of the σάρξ or of the πνεῦμα, Galatians 6:8; τόν λόγον, to scatter the seeds of instruction, i. e. to impart instruction, Mark 4:14f; ὁ λόγος, ὁ ἐσπαρμενος ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν, the ideas and precepts that have been implanted like seed in their hearts, i. e. received in their hearts, Mark 14:15 (here Tr text WH εἰς αὐτούς into their hearts T L marginal reading ἐν αὐτοῖς); οὗτος ἐστιν ὁ παρά τήν ὁδόν σπαρείς, this one experiences the fate of the seed sown by the wayside, Matthew 13:19; add, 20-23; Mark 4:16, 18, 20. τό σῶμα, the body, which after death is committed like seed to the earth, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44; καρπόν δικαιοσύνης, i. e. that seed which produces καρπόν δικαιοσύνης (see καρπός, 2 b.), James 3:18; σπείρειν τίνι τί, to give, manifest, something to one, from whom we may subsequently receive something else akin to a harvest (θερίζομεν), 1 Corinthians 9:11. (Compare: διασπείρω, ἐπισπείρω.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
6:26; 13:3; 13:18; 13:19; 13:19; 13:20; 13:20-23; 13:22; 13:23; 13:24; 13:24; 13:27; 25:24; 25:26
Mark
4:3; 4:14; 4:14; 4:16; 4:16; 4:18; 4:18; 4:20; 4:20; 4:31; 4:32; 14:15
Luke
8:5; 8:5; 12:24; 19:21
John
4:37; 5:36
1 Corinthians
9:11; 15:36; 15:42; 15:43; 15:44
2 Corinthians
9:6; 9:10
Galatians
6:7; 6:8
James
3:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4687 matches the Greek σπείρω (speirō),
which occurs 55 times in 53 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the earth sprout [fn]vegetation, [fn]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after [fn]their kind [fn]with seed in them”; and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The earth brought forth [fn]vegetation, [fn]plants yielding seed after [fn]their kind, and trees bearing fruit [fn]with seed in them, after [fn]their kind; and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the [fn]surface of all the earth, and every tree [fn]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - Now Isaac sowed in that land and [fn]reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for [fn]food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - “You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - “Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - He took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - ‘If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - ‘Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4 - but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - ‘You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20 - ‘But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year [fn]if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:22 - ‘When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:37 - “Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he shall take up the censers out of the midst of the [fn]blaze, for they are holy; and you scatter the [fn]burning coals abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - “Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? It is not a place of [fn]grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - “For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your [fn]foot like a vegetable garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or [fn]all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, [fn]unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and [fn]go against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - “According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity
And those who sow trouble harvest it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 - Let me sow and another eat,
And let my [fn]crops be uprooted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 126:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:5 - Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 - [fn]Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished,
But the [fn]descendants of the righteous will be delivered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:24 - There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more,
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 - He who sows iniquity will reap vanity,
And the rod of his fury will perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:4 - He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6 - Sow your seed in the morning and do not [fn]be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether [fn]morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - “For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one [fn]bath of wine,
And a homer of seed will yield but an [fn]ephah of grain.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - The bulrushes by the Nile, by the [fn]edge of the Nile
And all the sown fields by the Nile
Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:25 - Does he not level its surface
And sow dill and scatter cummin
And [fn]plant wheat in rows,
Barley in its place and rye within its [fn]area?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:20 - How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters,
Who [fn]let out freely the ox and the donkey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:30 - “Then this shall be the sign for you: [fn]you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - [fn]Scarcely have they been planted,
[fn]Scarcely have they been sown,
[fn]Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,
But He merely blows on them, and they wither,
And the storm carries them away like stubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“[fn]Break up your fallow ground,
And do not sow among thorns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 - “They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have strained themselves [fn]to no profit.
But be ashamed of your [fn]harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - ‘For I will [fn]restore you to [fn]health
And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the LORD,
‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying:
“It is Zion; no one [fn]cares for her.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - ‘You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed and you shall not plant a vineyard or own one; but in tents you shall dwell all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:9 - ‘For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:23 - “I will sow her for Myself in the land.
I will also have compassion on [fn]her who had not obtained compassion,
And I will say to [fn]those who were not My people,
‘You are My people!’
And [fn]they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no [fn]heads;
It yields no [fn]grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12 - Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with [fn]kindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the LORD
Until He comes to [fn]rain righteousness on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - “You will sow but you will not reap.
You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil;
And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.

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