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σίναπι

sínapi · G4615 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. mustard plant

    Mustard plant, a large herb noted for its very small seeds and in some instances growing to a height of three meters (about ten feet)

    Examples

    Matthew 13:31 He presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a person took and sowed in his field;

    Matthew 17:20 And He said to them, “Because of your meager faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”

    Mark 4:31 “It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,

How it’s used In 1 role

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In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Mustard plant3.20
The noun names the mustard plant, whose tiny seed illustrates the kingdom of heaven. Jesus says, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a person took and sowed in his field” (Matthew 13:31).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (also σινηπι (but not in the N. T.), both later for the Attic νᾶπυ (so accented in late…
(also σινηπι (but not in the N. T.), both later for the Attic νᾶπυ (so accented in late authors, better νᾶπυ), see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 288) (thought to be of Egyptian origin; cf. Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word νᾶπυ), σινάπεως (Buttmann, 14 (13)), τό, mustard, the name of a plant which in oriental countries grows from a very small seed and attains to the height of 'a tree' — ten feet and more; hence, a very small quantity of a thing is likened to a κόκκος σινάπεως (A. V. a grain of mustard seed), Mt 17:20; Lk 17:6; and also a thing which grows to a remarkable size, Mt 13:31; Mk 4:31; Lk 13:19. (Cf. B. D., under the word ; Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 134; Carruthers in the 'Bible Educator' vol. i., p. 119f; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 472f; Thomson, The Land and the Book, ii., 100f.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Plants That Are Not Trees5 occurrences

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.

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