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Strong's G4690 σπέρμα (sperma)

Sperma means “seed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4690 — matsuq (“pillar”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4690
Language Greek
Linked Usages 281
Books 49

Strong's G4690 Quick Answer

Strong's G4690 σπέρμα (sperma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sperma (sper'-mah) n. 1. something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm") 2. (by implication) offspring It has 281 linked Bible usages across 49 books. Visible English usage signals include seed, thee, lord, land, and god. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
sperma (sper'-mah) n. 1. something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm") 2. (by implication) offspring
Usage
281 linked usages
Books
49 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
seed, thee, lord, land, and god

Meaning and Definition

sperma (sper'-mah) n. 1. something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm") 2. (by implication) offspring 3. (specially) a remnant 4. (figuratively) as if kept over for planting [from G4687] KJV: issue, seed Root(s): G4687

Original Word
σπέρμα
Transliteration
sperma
Derivation
Root: σπείρω R1: 4687
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4690. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

seed: offspring

Usage: σπέρμα, -τος, τό (σπείρω) [in LXX chiefly for זֶרַע ;] seed; __(a) of plants: Mat.13:24, 27 13:37-38, 2Co.9:10; pl., Mat.13:32, Mrk.4:31, 1Co.15:33; metaphorically, of an escaping remnant (שָׂרִיד, Isa.1:9; cf. Wis.14:6; Plat., Tim., 23c; FlJ, Ant., xi, 5, 3), Rom.9:29; __(b) of men (as γονή; Lat. semen genitale; so in cl.; cf. in LXX, Lev.15:16, al.): Heb.11:11; metaphorically, of the divine influence, 1Jn.3:9; by meton.

(as frequently in poets), seed, offspring, posterity: Mat.22:24-25, Mrk.12:19-22, Luk.1:55 20:28" (LXX) Jhn.7:42 8:33, 37 Act.3:25 7:5-6 13:23, Rom.1:3 4:13, 18 9:7-8 11:1, 2Co.11:22, Gal.3:16, 19, 2Ti.2:8, Heb.2:16 11:18; pl. (FlJ, Ant., viii, 7, 6; Flat., Leg., ix, 853 with; 4Ma.18:1; in Ga, l.with, contrasted with sing., see Lft., in l; Milligan, NTD, 105 f.), Gal.3:16; of spiritual offspring, Rom.4:16, 18 9:8, Gal.3:29, Rev.12:17.† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

seed thee lord land god said give after shalt earth out abraham

How Strong's G4690 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 203 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4690 (σπέρμα) appears 268 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4690 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4690 in the New Testament

41 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G4690 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

203 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 1:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so.

Genesis 1:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:29 Septuagint / Brenton

And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food.

Strong's G4690 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

34 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G4690 in 1 Enoch

3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4690.

Genesis 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food.
Genesis 3:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall watch against thy head, and thou shalt watch against his heel.
Genesis 4:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth, saying, For God has raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis 7:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.
Genesis 8:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.
Genesis 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
Genesis 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to thy seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for all the land which thou seest, I will give it to thee and to thy seed forever.
Genesis 13:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.
Genesis 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abram said, I am grieved since thou hast given me no seed, but my homeborn servant shall succeed me.
Genesis 15:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, Thus shall thy seed be.
Genesis 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
Genesis 15:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.
Genesis 16:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord said to her, I will surely multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.
Genesis 17:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.
Genesis 17:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said to Abraham, Thou also shalt fully keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee for their generations.
Genesis 17:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the covenant which thou shalt fully keep between me and you, and between thy seed after thee for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed.
Genesis 17:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said to Abraham, Yea, behold, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him.
Genesis 19:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father.
Genesis 19:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do thou go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.
Genesis 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But God said to Abraham, Let it not be hard before thee concerning the child, and concerning the bondwoman; in all things whatsoever Sarah shall say to thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis 21:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And moreover I will make the son of this bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.
Genesis 21:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now therefore swear to me by God that thou wilt not injure me, nor my seed, nor my name, but according to the righteousness which I have performed with thee thou shalt deal with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.
Genesis 22:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.
Genesis 22:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.
Genesis 24:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father’s house, and out of the land whence I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to thee and to thy seed, he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife to my son from thence.
Genesis 24:60 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Thou art our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and let thy seed possess the cities of their enemies.
Genesis 26:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee, and bless thee, for I will give to thee and to thy seed all this land; and I will establish my oath which I swore to thy father Abraham.
Genesis 26:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven; and I will give to thy seed all this land, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in thy seed.
Genesis 26:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord appeared to him in that night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for the sake of Abraham thy father.
Genesis 28:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraham, even to thee and to thy seed after thee, to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.
Genesis 28:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
Genesis 28:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 32:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But thou saidst, I will do thee good, and will make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 35:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I have given it to thee; and it shall come to pass that I will give this land also to thy seed after thee.
Genesis 38:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother’s wife, and marry her as her brother-in-law, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Genesis 38:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Onan, knowing that the seed should not be his—it came to pass when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled it upon the ground, so that he should not give seed to his brother’s wife.
Genesis 46:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan; they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him.
Genesis 46:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sons, and the sons of his sons with him; his daughters, and the daughters of his daughters; and he brought all his seed into Egypt.
Genesis 47:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In order, then, that we die not before thee, and the land be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: give seed that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate.
Genesis 47:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Behold, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh; take seed for you, and sow the land.
Genesis 47:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there shall be the fruits of it; and ye shall give the fifth part to Pharaoh, and the four remaining parts shall be for yourselves, for seed for the earth, and for food for you, and all that are in your houses.
Genesis 48:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and said to me, Behold, I will increase thee, and multiply thee, and will make of thee multitudes of nations; and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee, for an everlasting possession.
Genesis 48:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I have not been deprived of seeing thy face, and lo! God has showed me thy seed also.
Genesis 48:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Exodus 16:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel called the name of it Manna; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.
Exodus 28:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
it is a perpetual statute for him, and for his seed after him.
Exodus 32:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
remembering Abraham and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it forever.
Exodus 33:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward, go up hence, thou and thy people, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, into the land which I swore to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed.
Leviticus 11:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if one of their carcasses should fall upon any sowing seed which shall be sown, it shall be clean.
Leviticus 11:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if water be poured on any seed, and one of their dead bodies fall upon it, it is unclean to you.
Leviticus 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man whose seed of copulation shall happen to go forth from him, shall then wash his whole body, and shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And every garment, and every skin on which there shall be the seed of copulation shall both be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a woman, if a man shall lie with her with seed of copulation—they shall both bathe themselves in water and shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.
Leviticus 18:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt not lie with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
Leviticus 18:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve a ruler; and thou shalt not profane my holy name; I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.
Leviticus 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt also say to the children of Israel, If there shall be any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his seed to Molech, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to me.
Leviticus 20:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the natives of the land should in anywise overlook that man in giving of his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death;
Leviticus 21:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I am the Lord that sanctifies him.
Leviticus 21:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer sacrifices to thy God, because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of God.
Leviticus 22:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Say to them, Every man throughout your generations, whoever of all your seed shall approach to the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall consecrate to the Lord, while his uncleanness is upon him, that soul shall be cut off from me: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,
Leviticus 22:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the daughter of a priest should be a widow, or put away, and have no seed, she shall return to her father’s house, as in her youth: she shall eat of her father’s bread, but no stranger shall eat of it.
Leviticus 26:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and disease that consumes your life; and ye shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.
Leviticus 27:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord’s, holy to the Lord.
Numbers 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and supposing anyone shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken;
Numbers 5:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.
Numbers 11:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoarfrost.
Numbers 14:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But my servant Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.
Numbers 17:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
a memorial to the children of Israel that no stranger might draw nigh, who is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense before the Lord; so he shall not be as Korah and as they that conspired with him, as the Lord spoke to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 18:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, for thee and thy seed after thee.
Numbers 21:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their seed shall perish from Heshbon to Dibon; And their women have yet farther kindled a fire against Moab.
Numbers 23:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, And who shall number the families of Israel? Let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, And let my seed be as their seed.
Numbers 24:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There shall come a man out of his seed, And he shall rule over many nations; And the kingdom of Gog shall be exalted, And his kingdom shall be increased.
Numbers 24:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having seen Amalek, he took up his parable and said, Amalek is the first of the nations; Yet his seed shall perish.
Numbers 25:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, God has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I swore to your fathers, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.
Deuteronomy 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord our God delivered him into our hands, even Og the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until we left none of his seed.
Deuteronomy 4:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because he loved thy fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought thee himself with his great strength out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 10:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Only the Lord chose your fathers to love them, and he chose out their seed after them, even you, beyond all nations, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 11:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that ye may live long upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 14:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt tithe a tenth of all the produce of thy seed, the fruit of thy field year by year.
Deuteronomy 22:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatsoever seed thou mayest sow, with the fruit of thy vineyard.
Deuteronomy 25:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out of the family to a man not related: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.
Deuteronomy 28:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.
Deuteronomy 28:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these things shall be signs in thee, and wonders among thy seed forever;
Deuteronomy 28:59 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the Lord shall magnify thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and abiding diseases.
Deuteronomy 30:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord shall purge thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Deuteronomy 30:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou life, that thou and thy seed may live;
Deuteronomy 31:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers.
Deuteronomy 34:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it: and I have shown it to thine eyes, but thou shalt not go in thither.
Joshua 24:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and I guided him through all the land, and I multiplied his seed;
Ruth 4:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let thy house be as the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this handmaid.
1 Kingdoms 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, O Lord God of Sabaoth, if thou wilt indeed look upon the humiliation of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give to thy handmaid a man-child, then will I indeed dedicate him to thee till the day of his death; and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and no razor shall come upon his head.
1 Kingdoms 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, saying, The Lord recompense to thee seed of this woman, in return for the loan which thou hast lent to the Lord: and the man returned to his place.
1 Kingdoms 2:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the days come when I will destroy thy seed and the seed of thy father’s house.
1 Kingdoms 8:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he will take the tithe of your seeds and your vineyards, and give it to his eunuchs, and to his servants.
1 Kingdoms 20:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, and as we have both sworn in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord shall be witness between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed forever—even so let it be.
1 Kingdoms 24:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, that thou wilt not blot out my name from the house of my father.
2 Kingdoms 4:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and they said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thy enemy, who sought thy life; and the Lord has executed for my lord the king vengeance on his enemies, as it is this day: even on Saul thy enemy, and on his seed.
2 Kingdoms 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass when thy days shall have been fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, even thine own issue, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Kingdoms 22:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He magnifies the salvation of his king, And works mercy for his anointed, Even for David and for his seed forever.
3 Kingdoms 1:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover thus said the king, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has this day appointed one of my seed sitting on my throne, and my eyes see it.
3 Kingdoms 2:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their blood is returned upon his head, and upon the head of his seed forever: but to David, and his seed, and his house, and his throne, may there be peace forever from the Lord.
3 Kingdoms 11:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord raised up an enemy to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, and Rezon son of Eliada who dwelt in Raama, and Hadadezer king of Zobah his master (and men gathered to him, and he was head of the conspiracy, and he seized on Damascus), and they were adversaries to Israel all the days of Solomon: and Hadad the Edomite was of the seed royal in Edom.
3 Kingdoms 18:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he built up the stones in the name of the Lord, and repaired the altar that had been broken down; and he made a trench that would hold two measures of seed round about the altar.
4 Kingdoms 5:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The leprosy also of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.
4 Kingdoms 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, and she destroyed all the seed royal.
4 Kingdoms 14:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
4 Kingdoms 17:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord was angry with the whole seed of Israel, and troubled them, and gave them into the hand of them that spoiled them, until he cast them out of his presence.
4 Kingdoms 25:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and he smote Gedaliah, that he died, him and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him in Mizpah.
1 Chronicles 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye seed of Israel his servants, Ye seed of Jacob his chosen ones.
1 Chronicles 17:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4690, grouped by book.

Genesis 49 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 19 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 33 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 7 usages, New Testament
Mark 5 usages, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
John 3 usages, New Testament
Acts 4 usages, New Testament
Romans 8 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
Galatians 3 usages, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 3 usages, New Testament
1 John 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 15 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 3 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G4690 FAQ

What does sperma (σπέρμα) mean?

Sperma (Strong's G4690) is a Greek word most simply glossed "seed". sperma (sper'-mah) n. 1. something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm") 2. (by implication) offspring

How many times is sperma (σπέρμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 281 linked usages for Strong's G4690 across 49 books.

Where can I study sperma (σπέρμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4690 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate sperma (σπέρμα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as seed, thee, lord, land, god, and said. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4690 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 203 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 34 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4690, with linked reader references where each row is available.