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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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σπορά

Strong’s: G4701

Associated OET lemmas: σπορά

Notes: It is also possible to understand σπορά in RV PE1 1:23 · LV PE1 1:23 · Read together PE1 1:23 as referring to the process of procreation as being analogical to the sowing of seed, but the attributives φθαρτῆς and ἀφθάρτου would seem to shift the meaning of σπορά to parentage. It is possible that this use of σπορά in RV PE1 1:23 · LV PE1 1:23 · Read together PE1 1:23 represents a case of figurative usage rather than conventionalized figurative meaning.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: σπορά; -ᾶς

Related lemmas: σπείρω

Sense 1: parentage

Semantic entry: 10.23

Semantic domains: Kinship Terms

Subdomains: Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of σπορά ‘sowing of seed,’ not occurring in the NT) the instrumental means of birth

PE1 1:23: RV PE1 1:23 · LV PE1 1:23 · Read together PE1 1:23

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OET-RV PE1 1:23

23 You’ve been born again, not growing from some physical thing that’ll decay, but from indestructible material—God’s message that’s alive and lives on,

OET-LV PE1 1:23

23 Having_been_born_again, not of perishable but of_indestructible seed, by the_ living and remaining _message of_god.