σπορά
sporá · G4701 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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parentage
(A figurative extension of meaning of σπορά ‘sowing of seed,’ not occurring in the NT) The instrumental means of birth
Examples1 Peter 1:23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable, but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φθαρτόςperishable 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκfrom 1
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Parentage10.23
- The noun describes the source or origin from which one is born, used figuratively of spiritual birth. Peter writes that believers “have been born again not of seed which is perishable, but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God” (1 Peter 1:23).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σπορᾶς, ἡ (σπείρω, 2 perfect ἐσπορα), seed: 1 Pet 1:23 ((equivalent to a sowing,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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