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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.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 1:11–Mic 6:15)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same 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, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for 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? Buy us and our land in exchange for food; we offer our land and ourselves as slaves for Pharaoh. Just give us grain so we may live and not die, and so the land does not become empty and desolate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, “Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. I will provide you with seed so you can plant the fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - “Plant and harvest your crops for six years,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - “Second, celebrate the Festival of Harvest,[fn] when you bring me the first crops of your harvest.
“Finally, celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest[fn] at the end of the harvest season, when you have harvested all the crops from your fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - He took the calf they had made and burned it. Then he ground it into powder, threw it into the water, and forced the people to drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - If the carcass falls on seed grain to be planted in the field, the seed will still be considered clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4 - but during the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath year of complete rest. It is the LORD’s Sabbath. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards during that year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20 - But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:22 - When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:37 - “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pull all the incense burners from the fire, for they are holy. Also tell him to scatter the burning coals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this terrible place? This land has no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates, and no water to drink!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - They must lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and that has a stream running through it. There in the valley they must break the young cow’s neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - “You must not plant any other crop between the rows of your vineyard. If you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes from the vineyard or the other crop.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities 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, marauders from Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east would attack Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - The battle went on all day before Abimelech finally captured the city. He killed the people, leveled the city, and scattered salt all over the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - My experience shows that those who plant trouble
and cultivate evil will harvest the same.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 - then let someone else eat the crops I have planted.
Let all that I have planted be uprooted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 126:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:5 - Those who plant in tears
will harvest with shouts of joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 - Evil people will surely be punished,
but the children of the godly will go free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:24 - Give freely and become more wealthy;
be stingy and lose everything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 - Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster,
and their reign of terror will come to an end.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:4 - Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.
If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6 - Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - Ten acres[fn] of vineyard will not produce even six gallons[fn] of wine.
Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket[fn] of grain.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - They may sprout on the day you set them out;
yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them,
but you will never pick any grapes from them.
Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - All the greenery along the riverbank
and all the crops along the river
will dry up and blow away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:25 - Does he not finally plant his seeds—
black cumin, cumin, wheat, barley, and emmer wheat—
each in its proper way,
and each in its proper place?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:20 - the LORD will greatly bless his people.
Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up.
Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:30 - Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that what I say is true:
“This year you will eat only what grows up by itself,
and next year you will eat what springs up from that.
But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them;
you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - They hardly get started, barely taking root,
when he blows on them and they wither.
The wind carries them off like chaff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - “The rain and snow come down from the heavens
and stay on the ground to water the earth.
They cause the grain to grow,
producing seed for the farmer
and bread for the hungry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - This is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Plow up the hard ground of your hearts!
Do not waste your good seed among thorns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 - My people have planted wheat
but are harvesting thorns.
They have worn themselves out,
but it has done them no good.
They will harvest a crop of shame
because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - I will give you back your health
and heal your wounds,” says the LORD.
“For you are called an outcast—
‘Jerusalem[fn] for whom no one cares.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - “The day is coming,” says the LORD, “when I will greatly increase the human population and the number of animals here in Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - And do not build houses or plant crops or vineyards, but always live in tents. If you follow these commands, you will live long, good lives in the land.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:9 - See, I care about you, and I will pay attention to you. Your ground will be plowed and your crops planted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:23 - At that time I will plant a crop of Israelites
and raise them for myself.
I will show love
to those I called ‘Not loved.’[fn]
And to those I called ‘Not my people,’[fn]
I will say, ‘Now you are my people.’
And they will reply, ‘You are our God!’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - “They have planted the wind
and will harvest the whirlwind.
The stalks of grain wither
and produce nothing to eat.
And even if there is any grain,
foreigners will eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12 - I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness,
and you will harvest a crop of love.
Plow up the hard ground of your hearts,
for now is the time to seek the LORD,
that he may come
and shower righteousness upon you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will plant crops
but not harvest them.
You will press your olives
but not get enough oil to anoint yourselves.
You will trample the grapes
but get no juice to make your wine.

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