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Koine Greek wordlink #24268

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
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Seaside_Parables_and_Miracle Refers to Word #24266

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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

OET-LV: 5 The one sowing came _out which to _sow the seed of _him. And at the time him to _be _sowing, some indeed fell along the road, and it _was _trampled and the birds of _the sky devoured it. (LUK_8:5)

OET-RV: 5 “One day a farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he spread the seeds, some of them fell along the path where they got trampled on, and the birds ate them. (LUK 8:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘speirō’ have 17 different glosses: ‘are sowing’, ‘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’

2 PET 2:22 Ὗς (Hus) N-NFS Lemma=us ‘own vomit and a sow having washed to wallowing’ SR GNT 2 Pet 2:22 word 15

OET-LV: 22 the message of _the true proverb has _happened to _them: A_dog having _returned to its own vomit, and: A_sow having _washed, to wallowing in_the_mud. (PE2_2:22)

OET-RV: 22 The proverb is correct in what it says and has happened to them: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A sow that’s been washed wallows in the mud again.” (PE2 2:22)

Key: N=noun V=verb NFS=nominative,feminine,singular