Greek noun (neuter) · G2215
ζιζάνιον
zizaniondziz-an'-ee-on
weed
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zizánion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2215is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2215
darnel or false grain
The King James renders it: tares.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zizanion is rendered "weed". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:25But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
Matthew 13:25ζιζάνια
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- weeds7
- the weeds1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ζιζάνια6
- ζιζάνιά1
- ζιζανίων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural4N-APN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural3N-NPN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural1N-GPN
Matthew
eight uses
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
- ζιζάνιαzizanianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: weeds
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
- ζιζάνιαzizanianoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: weeds
The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
- ζιζάνιαzizanianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: weeds
‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.
- ζιζάνιαzizanianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: weeds
Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
- ζιζάνιαzizanianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: weeds
Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
- ζιζανίωνzizanionnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: weeds
The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
- ζιζάνιάzizanianoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: the weeds
As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
- ζιζάνιαzizanianoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: weeds
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.