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Lexicon :: Strong's G4690 - sperma

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σπέρμα
Transliteration
sperma (Key)
Pronunciation
sper'-mah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:536,1065

Strong’s Definitions

σπέρμα spérma, sper'-mah; from G4687; something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm"); by implication, offspring; specially, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting):—issue, seed.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's G4690 in the following manner: seed (43x), issue (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's G4690 in the following manner: seed (43x), issue (1x).
  1. from which a plant germinates

    1. the seed i.e. the grain or kernel which contains within itself the germ of the future plants

      1. of the grains or kernels sown

    2. metaph. a seed i.e. a residue, or a few survivors reserved as the germ of the next generation (just as seed is kept from the harvest for the sowing)

  2. the semen virile

    1. the product of this semen, seed, children, offspring, progeny

    2. family, tribe, posterity

    3. whatever possesses vital force or life giving power

      1. of divine energy of the Holy Spirit operating within the soul by which we are regenerated

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σπέρμα spérma, sper'-mah; from G4687; something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm"); by implication, offspring; specially, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting):—issue, seed.
STRONGS G4690:
σπέρμα, σπέρματος, τό (σπείρω, which see), from Homer down, Hebrew זֶרַע, the seed (from which anything springs);
a. from which a plant germinates;
α. properly, the seed i. e. the grain or kernel which contains within itself the germ of the future plant: plural, Matthew 13:32; Mark 4:31; 1 Corinthians 15:38 (Exodus 16:31; 1 Samuel 8:15); the singular is used collectively of the grains or kernels sown: Matthew 13:24, 27, 37; 2 Corinthians 9:10 (here L Tr σπόρος).
β. metaphorically, a seed i. e. a residue. or a few survivors reserved as the germ of a new race (just as seed is kept from the harvest for the sowing), Romans 9:29 after Isaiah 1:9, where the Sept. for שַׂרִיד (so also Wis. 14:6; 1 Esdr. 8:85 (87); Josephus, Antiquities 11, 5, 3; 12, 7, 8; Plato, Tim., p. 23{c}).
b. the semen virile;
α. properly: Leviticus 15:16-18; Leviticus 18:20f, etc.; (probably also Hebrews 11:11, cf. καταβολή 1, and see below); often in secular writings. By metonymy the product of this semen, seed, children, offspring, progeny; family, race, posterity (so in Greek chiefly in the tragic poets, cf. Passow, under the word, 2 b. ii., p. 1498 (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 3); and זֶרַע very often in the O. T. (cf. Winer's Grammar, 17, 30)); so in the singular, either of one, or collectively of many: Romans 9:7f; εἰς καταβολήν σπέρματος (see (above, and) καταβολή, 2) Hebrews 11:11; ἀνισταναι and ἐξανισταναι σπέρμα τίνι, Matthew 22:24; Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28 (Genesis 38:8); ἔχειν σπέρμα, Matthew 22:25; ἀφιέναι σπέρμα τίνι, Mark 12:20-22; τό σπέρμα τίνος, Luke 1:55; John 7:42; John 8:33, 37; Acts 3:25; Acts 7:5; Acts 13:23; Romans 1:3; (Romans 4:13); Rom. 9:7; 11:1; 2 Corinthians 11:22; 2 Timothy 2:8; Hebrews 2:16; Hebrews 11:18; in plural: παῖς ἐκ βαιλικων σπερμάτων, of royal descent, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 7, 6; τῶν Αβραμιαίων σπερμάτων ἀπόγονοι, 4 Macc. 18:1; equivalent to tribes, races, ἄνθρωποι τέ καί ἀνθρώπων σπερμασι νομοθετουμεν τά νῦν, Plato, legg. 9, p. 853 c. By a rabbinical method of interpreting, opposed to the usage of the Hebrew זֶרַע, which signifies the offspring whether consisting of one person or many, Paul lays such stress on the singular number in Genesis 13:15; Genesis 17:8 as to make it denote but one of Abraham's posterity, and that the Messiah: Galatians 3:16, also Galatians 3:19; and yet, that the way in which Pard presses the singular here is not utterly at variance with the genius of the Jewish-Greek language is evident from Αβραμιαίων σπερμάτων ἀπόγονοι, 4 Macc. 18:1, where the plural is used of many descendants ((cf. Geiger in Zeitschr. d. deutsch. Morgenl. Gesellsch. 1858, pp. 307-309; Delitzsch in Lut. Zeitschr. 1877 p. 603 sq.; Driver in the Expositor for Jan. 1889 p. 18 sq.; Lightfoot on Galatians, the passage cited)). τό σπέρμα (Ἀβραάμ) τό ἐκ τοῦ νόμου, the seed which is such according to the decision of the law, physical offspring (see νόμος, 2, p. 428{a}), τό ἐκ πίστεως Ἀβραάμ, those who are called Abraham's posterity on account of the faith by which they are akin to him (see πίστις, 1 b. ., p. 513{b} and ἐκ, II. 7), Romans 4:16; add, Romans 4:18; Rom 9:8; Galatians 3:29; similarly, Christians are called, in Revelation 12:17, the σπέρμα of the church (which is likened to a mother, Galatians 4:26).
β. whatever possesses vital force or life-giving power: τό σπέρμα τοῦ Θεοῦ ((but anarthrous)), the Holy Spirit, the divine energy operating within the soul by which we are regenerated or made the τέκνα τοῦ Θεοῦ, 1 John 3:9.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
13:15; 17:8; 38:8
Exodus
16:31
Leviticus
15:16; 15:17; 15:18; 18:20
1 Samuel
8:15
Isaiah
1:9
Matthew
13:24; 13:27; 13:32; 13:37; 22:24; 22:25
Mark
4:31; 12:19; 12:20; 12:21; 12:22
Luke
1:55; 20:28
John
7:42; 8:33; 8:37
Acts
3:25; 7:5; 13:23
Romans
1:3; 4:13; 4:16; 4:18; 9:7; 9:7; 9:8; 9:29; 11:1
1 Corinthians
15:38
2 Corinthians
9:10; 11:22
Galatians
3:16; 3:19; 3:29; 4:26
2 Timothy
2:8
Hebrews
2:16; 11:11; 11:11; 11:18
1 John
3:9
Revelation
12:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4690 matches the Greek σπέρμα (sperma),
which occurs 34 times in 33 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 -

Oh, sinful nation,

People weighed down with guilt,

[fn]Offspring of evildoers,

Sons who act corruptly!

They have abandoned the LORD,

They have despised the Holy One of Israel,

They have turned away [fn]from Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 -

If the LORD of armies

Had not left us a few survivors,

We would be like Sodom,

We would be like Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:20 -

“You will not be united with them in burial,

Because you have ruined your country,

You have killed your people.

May the descendants of evildoers never be mentioned.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:22 -

“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of armies, “and eliminate from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and descendants,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 -

“Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you,

Because the rod that struck you is broken;

For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,

And its fruit will be a winged serpent.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 -

[fn]Those who are most helpless will eat,

And the poor will lie down in security;

I will kill your root with famine,

And it will kill your survivors.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:9 -

For the waters of Dimon are full of [fn]blood;

I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon,

A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 -

It will be like the [fn]reaper gathering the standing grain,

As his arm harvests the ears,

Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain

In the Valley of Rephaim.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:10 -

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation

And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.

Therefore you plant delightful plants

And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:3 -

And were on many waters.

The grain of the [fn]Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue;

And she was the market of nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 -

Then He will give you rain for your seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be [fn]rich and [fn]plentiful; on that day your livestock will graze in a wide pasture.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 -

“His rock will pass away because of panic,

And his officers will be terrified by the flag,”

Declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 -

LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for You.

Be [fn]their [fn]strength every morning,

Our salvation also in the time of distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:31 - “The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:8 -

“But you, Israel, My servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

Descendant of Abraham My friend,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:5 -

“Do not fear, for I am with you;

I will bring your offspring from the east,

And gather you from the west.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:3 -

‘For I will pour water on [fn]the thirsty land

And streams on the dry ground;

I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring,

And My blessing on your descendants;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 -

“I have not spoken in secret,

In [fn]some dark land;

I did not say to the [fn]offspring of Jacob,

‘Seek Me in [fn]a wasteland’;

I, the LORD, speak righteousness,

Declaring things that are right.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:25 -

“In the LORD all the offspring of Israel

Will be justified and will boast.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:14 -

“Assemble, all of you, and listen!

Who among them has declared these things?

The LORD loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure against Babylon,

And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 -

“Your [fn]descendants would have been like the sand,

And [fn]your offspring like its grains;

Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:10 -

But the LORD desired

To crush Him, [fn]causing Him grief;

If He renders [fn]Himself as a guilt offering,

He will see His [fn]offspring,

He will prolong His days,

And the [fn]good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 -

“For you will spread out to the right and to the left.

And your [fn]descendants will possess nations

And will resettle the desolate cities.

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 produce and sprout,

And providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:3 -

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress,

Offspring of an adulterer and [fn]a prostitute!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:4 -

“Of whom do you make fun?

Against whom do you open wide your mouth

And stick out your tongue?

Are you not children of rebellion,

Offspring of deceit,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:7 -

“Is it not to break your bread [fn]with the hungry

And bring the homeless poor into the house;

When you see the naked, to cover him;

And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 -

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your [fn]offspring, nor from the mouth of your [fn]offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now and forever.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:9 -

Then their offspring will be known among the nations,

And their descendants in the midst of the peoples.

All who see them will recognize them

Because they are the offspring whom the LORD has blessed.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:11 -

For as the earth produces its sprouts,

And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up,

So the Lord [fn]GOD will cause righteousness and praise

To spring up before all the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:9 -

“I will bring forth [fn]offspring from Jacob,

And an heir of My mountains from Judah;

My chosen ones shall inherit it,

And My servants will live there.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 -

“They will not labor in vain,

Or give birth to children for disaster;

For they are the [fn]descendants of those blessed by the LORD,

And their descendants with them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:22 -

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth,

Which I make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD,

“So will your descendants and your name endure.

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