UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: στάχυς; -υος

Sense 1: ear of wheat, head of wheat

Semantic entry: 3.40

Semantic domains: Plants

Subdomains: Fruit Parts of Plants

Definition: the dense spiky cluster in which the seeds of grain such as wheat and barley grow (restricted in NT contexts to references to wheat)

Notes: In some languages it is impossible to speak of ‘a head of wheat’ or ‘an ear of wheat,’ since terms referring to ‘head’ and ‘ear’ have no such figurative extensions of meaning. In certain instances the equivalent may be ‘the point of the wheat’ or ‘the brush of the wheat,’ referring to the spike-like objects which extend from each grain.

Further resources: flora:3.1

Show passage in OET: MAT 12:1

OET-RV MAT 12:1

12 At that time, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) was going through some fields of grain on a rest day, and his apprentices were hungry and began to pluck some heads of grain and crunch them.

OET-LV MAT 12:1

12 At that the time, the Yaʸsous was _gone on _the days _of _rest through the grainfields, and the the_apprentices/followers of _him hungered, and began to _be _plucking heads _of _grain and to _be _eating.

Show passage in OET: MRK 2:23

OET-RV MRK 2:23

23 Then it so happened that Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) and his followers passed through some fields of grain on some days of rest. As they went through, they plucked off some heads of grain,

OET-LV MRK 2:23

23 And it _became him on the days _of _rest to _be _passing _through through the grainfields, and the apprentices/followers of _him began to _be _making way, plucking the heads _of _grain.

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All 4 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 12:1

MRK: OET MRK 2:23 · OET MRK 4:28

LUK: OET LUK 6:1

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

στάχυς

Form 1

Sense 1: ear of wheat, head of wheat