GreekG4621Noun (Masculine)

σῖτος

sitos

14Occurrences
G4621Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

grain, especially wheat

of uncertain derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
wheat, corn: .† σιτίοι, -ου, *τό (dimin. of σῖτος), [in LXX: (לֶחֶם) ;]
1.corn, grain
2.Mostly in pl., σιτία, bread, food, provisions (LXX, l.with, Hdt.).
LXX: chiefly for דָּגָן

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

G:N-M

Full Description

Greek Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

σῖτος appears 14 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Luke
4
Matthew
4
Revelation
2
1 Corinthians
1
Acts
1
John
1
Mark
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 15:37BSB

And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.

John 12:24BSB

Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Luke 16:7BSB

Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied.‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

Luke 3:17BSB

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 13:29BSB

‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

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