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Koine Greek wordlink #107889

SR GNT Rom 4:18 σπέρμα (sperma) ‘thus will_be the descendants of you’ Strongs=46900 Lemma=sperma
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular

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Other uses (11) of identical word form σπέρμα (N-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘σπέρμα’ (N-NNS) has 3 different glosses: ‘the seed’, ‘descendants’, ‘seed’.

Yhn (Jhn) 8:33 ‘they answered to him seed of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) we are and’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 8:33 word 7

Yhn (Jhn) 8:37 ‘I have known that seed of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) you_all are but’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 8:37 word 3

Mat 13:38 ‘the and good seed these are the’ SR GNT Mat 13:38 word 10

Acts 7:6 ‘that will_be the descendants of him a sojourner in’ SR GNT Acts 7:6 word 12

Rom 9:7 ‘nor because they are seed of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) all children’ SR GNT Rom 9:7 word 5

Rom 9:7 ‘Isaʼak/(Yiʦḩāq) will_be_being named to you descendants’ SR GNT Rom 9:7 word 14

2Cor 11:22 ‘ones_from_Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl) they are also_I descendants of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) they are also_I’ SR GNT 2Cor 11:22 word 8

Gal 3:19 ‘of which may come the seed to whom he has_been promised having_been directed’ SR GNT Gal 3:19 word 15

Gal 3:29 ‘of chosen_one/messiah consequently of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) the seed you_all are according_to the promise’ SR GNT Gal 3:29 word 8

Heb 11:18 ‘Isaʼak/(Yiʦḩāq) will_be_being named to you descendants’ SR GNT Heb 11:18 word 9

1Yhn (1Yohan or 1Jhn) 3:9 ‘not is practicing because the seed of him in him’ SR GNT 1Yhn (1Yohan or 1Jhn) 3:9 word 11

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 (5) 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

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

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

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

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

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