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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 - God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation - plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because 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 very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh's slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Joseph said to the people, "Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - "For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - "You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed 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 may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4 - but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest - a Sabbath to the LORD. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20 - If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:22 - and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year's produce - old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year's produce, you may eat old produce.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:37 - "Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer's neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 - then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 126:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:5 - Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 - Be assured that the evil person will certainly be punished, but the descendants of the righteous will not suffer unjust judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:24 - One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 - The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

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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 observes 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 stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed - whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel."

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:25 - Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:20 - you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:30 - "This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - Yes, the LORD has this to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: "Like a farmer breaking up hard unplowed ground, you must break your rebellious will and make a new beginning; just as a farmer must clear away thorns lest the seed is wasted, you must get rid of the sin that is ruining your lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 - My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the LORD will take them away in his fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the LORD, affirm it! For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - "Indeed, a time is coming," says the LORD, "when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:9 - For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:23 - Then I will plant her as my own in the land. I will have pity on 'No Pity' (Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to 'Not My People' (Lo-Ammi), 'You are my people!' And he will say, 'You are my God!'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12 - Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

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