G4690 – sperma – σπέρμα – a seed; fig. an offspring

Strong’s ID:
G4690
Greek Word:
σπέρμα
Transliteration:
sperma
Pronunciation:
sper’-mah
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Etymology:
from
Usage Count:
44
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Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

1) a seed
2) figuratively: an offspring

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from ; something sown, i.e. seed (including the male “sperm”); by implication, offspring; specifically, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting):—issue, seed.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) from which a plant germinates
1a) the seed, i.e. the grain or kernel which contains within itself the germ of the future plants
1a1) of the grains or kernels sown
1b) metaphorically a seed, i.e. a residue, or a few survivors reserved as the germ of the next generation (just as seed is kept from the harvest for the sowing)
2) the semen virile
2a) the product of this semen, seed, children, offspring, progeny
2b) family, tribe, posterity
2c) whatever possesses vital force or life giving power
2c1) of divine energy of the Holy Spirit operating within the soul by which we are regenerated

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.