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Koine Greek wordlink #124669

SR GNT 2 Cor 11:22 Σπέρμα (Sperma) ‘ones_from_Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl) they are also_I descendants of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) they are also_I’ Strongs=46900 Lemma=sperma
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form Σπέρμα (N-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Σπέρμα’ (N-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘descendants’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘sperma’ have 7 different glosses: ‘the seed’, ‘of the seed’, ‘of seed’, ‘children’, ‘descendants’, ‘seed’, ‘seeds’.

Greek words (9) other than Σπέρμα (N-NNS) with a gloss related to ‘descendants’

LUKE 1:55 σπέρματι (spermati) N-DNS ‘to Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) and to the descendants of him for the’ SR GNT Luke 1:55 word 11

OET-LV: 55 as he _spoke to the fathers of _us, to_ the _Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) and to _the descendants of _him, because/for the age. (LUK_1:55)

OET-RV: 55 as he spoke to our ancestors,
⇔ to Abraham and his descendants,
⇔ at the right time.” (LUK 1:55)

ACTs 7:5 σπέρματι (spermati) N-DNS ‘it and to the descendants of him after him’ SR GNT Acts 7:5 word 24

OET-LV: 5 And not gave to _him an_inheritance in it, nor the_tribunal of_a_foot, but he _promised to _give to _him for a_possession it, and to _the descendants of _him after him, not being to _him a_child. (ACT_7:5)

OET-RV: 5 Abraham hadn’t received any land here as an inheritance, in fact he’d never been near this land and nor did he have any children, yet God promised to give this entire country to him and his descendants. (ACT 7:5)

ACTs 7:6 σπέρμα (sperma) N-NNS ‘that will_be the descendants of him a sojourner in’ SR GNT Acts 7:6 word 12

OET-LV: 6 But the god spoke thus that will _be the descendants of _him: a_sojourner in anothers land, and they _will _be _enslaving it and they _will _be _mistreating it four _hundred years. (ACT_7:6)

OET-RV: 6 And yet God also told him that his descendants would end up staying in another country where they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. (ACT 7:6)

ROM 4:13 σπέρματι (spermati) N-DNS ‘to Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) or the descendants of him that heir’ SR GNT Rom 4:13 word 11

OET-LV: 13 For/Because not by law the promise was to_ the _Abraʼam or the descendants of _him, that heir him to _be of_the_world, but by righteousness in _faith. (ROM_4:13)

OET-RV: 13 It wasn’t because of his obeying the law that it was promised that Abraham or his descendants would inherit the world, but because of his righteousness that came from his faith, (ROM 4:13)

ROM 4:18 σπέρμα (sperma) N-NNS ‘thus will_be the descendants of you’ SR GNT Rom 4:18 word 21

OET-LV: 18 Who contrary _to hope, in hope believed, in _order that to _become him the_father of _many nations, according _to the message having _been _spoken: Thus will _be the descendants of _you. (ROM_4:18)

OET-RV: 18 Without any other evidence, he believed in hope itself and thus he became the father of many nations according to what he had been told: ‘Your descendants will be like the sand and the stars.’ (ROM 4:18)

ROM 9:7 σπέρμα (sperma) N-NNS ‘Isaʼak/(Yiʦḩāq) will_be_being named to you descendants’ SR GNT Rom 9:7 word 14

OET-LV: 7 Nor because they _are seed of _Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) all children, but: In Isaʼak/(Yiʦḩāq) will _be _being _named to _you descendants. (ROM_9:7)

OET-RV: 7 nor are all of Abraham’s descendants his children, but, ‘It’s through Isaak that your descendants will be counted.’ (ROM 9:7)

ROM 9:8 σπέρμα (sperma) N-ANS ‘promise is_being counted for descendants’ SR GNT Rom 9:8 word 20

OET-LV: 8 This is not the children of _the flesh, these are children of_ the _god, but the children of _the promise is _being _counted for descendants. (ROM_9:8)

OET-RV: 8 That isn’t talking about worldly children—these are God’s children, but the children of the promise are being counted as descendants. (ROM 9:8)

ROM 9:29 σπέρμα (sperma) N-ANS ‘of armies abandoned to us descendants like Sodoma/(Şədom) would’ SR GNT Rom 9:29 word 12

OET-LV: 29 And as has _previously _said Aʸsaias: Except not/lest the_master of _armies abandoned to _us descendants, like Sodoma/(Şədom) would we _were _become, and like Gomorra/(ˊAmorāh) would we _were _likened. (ROM_9:29)

OET-RV: 29 As Yeshayah had previously written: ‘If army commander Yahweh hadn’t left us some descendants, we would have become like the peoples of Sodom and Amorah (Gomorrah).’ (ROM 9:29)

HEB 11:18 σπέρμα (sperma) N-NNS ‘Isaʼak/(Yiʦḩāq) will_be_being named to you descendants’ SR GNT Heb 11:18 word 9

OET-LV: 18 to whom it _was _spoken, that In Isaʼak will _be _being _named to _you descendants, (HEB_11:18)

OET-RV: 18 the one about which it had been said: ‘Your descendants will be named through Isaac.’ (HEB 11:18)

Key: N=noun ANS=accusative,neuter,singular DNS=dative,neuter,singular NNS=nominative,neuter,singular