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Koine Greek wordlink #24479

SR GNT Mark 4:3 σπεῖραι (speirai) ‘came_out the one sowing to sow’ Strongs=46870 Lemma=speirō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Refers to Word #24477

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Other uses (1) of identical word form σπεῖραι (V-NAA....) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘σπεῖραι’ (V-NAA....) is always and only glossed as ‘to sow’.

Luke 8:5 ‘came_out the one sowing to sow the seed of him’ SR GNT Luke 8:5 word 5

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 (1) other than σπεῖραι (V-NAA....) with a gloss related to ‘sow’

2PET 2:22 ὗς (hus) N-NFS Lemma=us ‘own vomit and a sow having washed to wallowing’ SR GNT 2Pet 2:22 word 16

Key: N=noun V=verb NAA....=infinitive,aorist,active NFS=nominative,feminine,singular