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Lexicon :: Strong's G4687 - speirō

Aa
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)
Dictionary Aids

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.)
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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 BoxGen 1:11 - And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:10 - And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:16 - and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:3 - Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4 - but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20 - And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:22 - And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old store.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:37 - Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are holy,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:9 - Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 -
According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,
And sow trouble, reap the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 -
Then let me sow, and let another eat;
Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:5 -
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 -
Though hand join in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished;
But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:24 -
There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more;
And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.

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He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity;
And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:4 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:25 - When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:20 - Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:30 - And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:13 - They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that 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 BoxJer 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:9 - For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:23 - And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12 - Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

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