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γεώργιον

geṓrgion · G1091 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. field

    Cultivated land, normally restricted to tilled fields or orchards, in contrast with pasture land (in the NT γεώργιον is used only figuratively of people whom God cares for and nurtures)

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
שָׂדֶה sâdeh · H7704 · countryside, bush, uninhabited land
γεώργιον (geṓrgion, G1091) specifically denotes a cultivated field or farm (agricultural land under human cultivation), while שָׂדֶה (sâdeh, H7704) has broader semantic range including open country, wild fields, and uncultivated land in addition to cultivated fields; the Greek term is the cultivated-specific subset of the Hebrew term's wider field/land domain.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Field1.96
Used figuratively of a cultivated plot, as of believers described as God's field and God's building in 1 Corinthians 3:9.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

γῆ gē · G1093 · earth, world, land · 250×γεωργός geōrgós · G1092 · farmer, gardener · 19×ἐπίγειος epígeios · G1919 · on the earth, in the world, human · 7×γείτων geítōn · G1069 · neighbor, brother · 4×γεωργέω geōrgéō · G1090 · to cultivate land, to farm, to garden · 1×γεώργιονgeṓrgion · G1091
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γεωργίου, τό, a (cultivated) field: 1 Cor 3:9 (A. V. husbandry (with margin tillage)).…
γεωργίου, τό, a (cultivated) field: 1 Cor 3:9 (A. V. husbandry (with margin tillage)). (Proverbs 24:45 (); Prov 31:16 (Prov. 29:34>); Theag. in schol. Pindar Nem. 3, 21; Strabo 14, 5, 6, p. 671; (others).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Pastures and Cultivated Lands1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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