Greek noun (masculine) · G4703
σπόρος
sporosspro'-os
sowing or seedtime.; seed sown
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: spóros
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4703is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4703
a scattering (of seed), i.e. (concretely) seed (as sown)
The King James renders it: seed (X sown).
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
sporos is rendered "sowing or seedtime.; seed sown". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "sowing or seedtime.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 4:26Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
Mark 4:26σπόρον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Mark.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: sowing or seedtime., and seed sown.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| sowing or seedtime. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMark 4:26Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. |
| seed sown | Tagged as
| WhereMark 4:26Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. |
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- σπόρον4
- σπόρος2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular4N-ASM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
Mark
two uses
Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
- σπόρονsporonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: seed
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
- σπόροςsporosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: seed
Luke
two uses
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.
- σπόρονsporonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: seed
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
- σπόροςsporosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: seed
2 Corinthians
two uses
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
- σπόρονsporonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: seed
- σπόρονsporonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: seed for sowing
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.