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Koine Greek wordlink #8796

SR GNT Mat 13:31 ἔσπειρεν (espeiren) ‘which having taken a man sowed in the field’ Strongs=46870 Lemma=speirō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular

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Only use of identical word form ἔσπειρεν (V-IAA3..S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔσπειρεν’ (V-IAA3..S) is always and only glossed as ‘sowed’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘speirō’ have 16 different glosses: ‘being sown’, ‘having sown’, ‘having_been sown’, ‘is sowing’, ‘is_being sown’, ‘may_be sowing’, ‘to sow’, ‘to_be sowing’, ‘I sowed’, ‘it is_being sown’, ‘it may_be sown’, ‘they are sowing’, ‘you are sowing’, ‘you sowed’, ‘sowed’, ‘sowing’.

Greek words (7) other than ἔσπειρεν (V-IAA3..S) with a gloss related to ‘sowed’

MAT 13:25 ἐπέσπειρεν (epespeiren) V-IAA3..S Lemma=epispeirō ‘the enemy and sowed darnels among midst’ SR GNT Mat 13:25 word 12

MAT 13:27 ἔσπειρας (espeiras) V-IAA2..S ‘not good seed you sowed in your field’ SR GNT Mat 13:27 word 14

MAT 25:24 ἔσπειρας (espeiras) V-IAA2..S ‘reaping where not you sowed and gathering_together whence’ SR GNT Mat 25:24 word 23

MAT 25:26 ἔσπειρα (espeira) V-IAA1..S ‘I am reaping where not I sowed and I am gathering_together whence’ SR GNT Mat 25:26 word 22

LUKE 19:21 ἔσπειρας (espeiras) V-IAA2..S ‘you are reaping what not you sowed’ SR GNT Luke 19:21 word 20

LUKE 19:22 ἔσπειρα (espeira) V-IAA1..S ‘reaping what not I sowed’ SR GNT Luke 19:22 word 30

1COR 9:11 ἐσπείραμεν (espeiramen) V-IAA1..P ‘we to you_all spiritual things sowed a great thing if we’ SR GNT 1Cor 9:11 word 7

Key: V=verb IAA1..P=indicative,aorist,active,1st person plural IAA1..S=indicative,aorist,active,1st person singular IAA2..S=indicative,aorist,active,2nd person singular IAA3..S=indicative,aorist,active,3rd person singular