στάχυς
stáchys · G4719 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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ear of wheat, head of wheat
The dense spiky cluster in which the seeds of grain such as wheat and barley grow (restricted in NT contexts to references to wheat)
ExamplesMatthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat.
Mark 2:23 And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.
Mark 4:28 “The soil produces crops by itself; first the stalk, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
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
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- τίλλωto pluck 3
- ἐσθίωto eat 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- שִׁבֹּל shibbôl · H7641 · stream, flood, ear of grain
- Hebrew שִׁבֹּל and Greek στάχυς both denote a head/ear of grain on the stalk, representing direct translation equivalents for the same agricultural referent across the Testament language boundary.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Ear of wheat, head of wheat3.40
- The noun names the grain-bearing head at the top of a stalk. Matthew records that “His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat” (Matthew 12:1).
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σταχυνος (cf. Buttmann, 14), ὁ (connected with the root, sta, ἵστημι; Curtius, p. 721),…
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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