σπείρω

(imperfect 2 person singular ἐσπειρες, Mt 13:27 Tr); 1 aorist ἔσπειρα; passive, present σπείρομαι; perfect passive participle ἐσπαρμενος; 2 aorist ἐσπάρην; (derived from the quick, jerky, motion of the hand; cf. our spurn (of the foot); Curtius, § 389); from Hesiod down; the Sept. for זָרַע; to sow, scatter seed;
a. properly: absolutely, Mt 6:26; Mt 13:3f, 18; Mk 4:3f, 14; Lk 8:5; Lk 12:24; (Jn 5:36f (see in b.)); 2 Cor 9:10; with an accusative of the thing, as σπέρμα ζιζάνια, κόκκον (cf. Buttmann, § 131, 5): Mt 13:24f (but in 25 L T Tr WH have ἐπέσπειρεν), 27,37,39; Mk 4:32: Lk 8:5; 1 Cor 15:36f; with specifications of place: εἰς τάς ἀκάνθας, Mt 13:22; Mk 4:18; ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ, Mt 13:24 (31); ἐπί τῆς γῆς. Mk 4:31; ἐπί with an accusative of place, Mt 13:20, Mt 13:23; Mk 4:16, Mk 4:20; παρά τήν ὁδόν, Mt 13:19.
b. in proverbial sayings: absolutely, Mt 25:24, Mt 25:26; Lk 19:21; Jn 4:37; 2 Cor 9:6; τί, Gal 6:7 (on these sayings see θερίζω, b.). in comparisons: σπρίειν εἰς τήν σάρκα, εἰς τό πνεῦμα (σάρξ and πνεῦμα are likened to fields to be sown), to do those things which satisfy the nature and promptings of the σάρξ or of the πνεῦμα, Gal 6:8; τόν λόγον, to scatter the seeds of instruction, i. e. to impart instruction, Mk 4:14f; ὁ λόγος, ὁ ἐσπαρμενος ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν, the ideas and precepts that have been implanted like seed in their hearts, i. e. received in their hearts, Mk 14:15 (here Tr text WH εἰς αὐτούς into their hearts T L marginal reading ἐν αὐτοῖς); οὗτος ἐστιν ὁ παρά τήν ὁδόν σπαρείς, this one experiences the fate of the seed sown by the wayside, Mt 13:19; add, 20-23; Mk 4:16, Mk 4:18, Mk 4:20. τό σῶμα, the body, which after death is committed like seed to the earth, 1 Cor 15:42-44; καρπόν δικαιοσύνης, i. e. that seed which produces καρπόν δικαιοσύνης (see καρπός, 2 b.), Jas 3:18; σπείρειν τίνι τί, to give, manifest, something to one, from whom we may subsequently receive something else akin to a harvest (θερίζομεν), 1 Cor 9:11. (Compare: διασπείρω, ἐπισπείρω.)