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Greek verb · G5452

φυτεύω

phyteuofoot-yoo'-o

to plant

11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: phyteúō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5452is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 7
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5452

to set out in the earth, i.e. implant; figuratively, to instil doctrine

The King James renders it: plant.

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

phyteuo is rendered "to plant". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across four books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 15:13But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
  • The Greek text spells it seven different ways.

The first use

But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

Matthew 15:13ἐφύτευσεν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's eleven uses are in Luke.

The other 23 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • planted5
  • planting2
  • do be planted1
  • has planted1
  • plants1
  • they were planting1

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.

φυτείαphyteiaplantUses1

All 11, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

7 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

  • ἐφύτευσεν4
  • φυτεύων2
  • ἐφύτευον1
  • ἐφύτευσα1
  • πεφυτευμένην1
  • φυτεύει1
  • φυτεύθητι1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-AAI-3S
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-PAP-NSM
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
  • verb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person singular1V-APM-2S
  • verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
  • verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
  • verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singular1V-RPP-ASF

Matthew

two uses
  • But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

    Matthew 15:13

    • ἐφύτευσενephuteusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has planted
  • Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

    Matthew 21:33

    • ἐφύτευσενephuteusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: planted

Mark

one use
  • Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

    Mark 12:1

    • ἐφύτευσενephuteusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: planted

Luke

four uses
  • Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.

    Luke 13:6

    • πεφυτευμένηνpephuteumenenverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: planted
  • And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

    Luke 17:6

    • φυτεύθητιphuteuthetiverb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do be planted
  • It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

    Luke 17:28

    • ἐφύτευονephuteuonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were planting
  • Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.

    Luke 20:9

    • ἐφύτευσενephuteusenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: planted

1 Corinthians

four uses
  • I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

    1 Corinthians 3:6

    • ἐφύτευσαephuteusaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: planted
  • So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

    1 Corinthians 3:7

    • φυτεύωνphuteuonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: planting
  • He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

    1 Corinthians 3:8

    • φυτεύωνphuteuonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: planting
  • Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

    1 Corinthians 9:7

    • φυτεύειphuteueiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: plants

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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