sporos - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4703 — mitsad (“step”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4703 σπόρος (sporos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sporos (spor'-os) n. 1. a scattering (of seed) 2. (concretely) seed (as sown) It has 17 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include seed. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
sporos (spor'-os) n. 1. a scattering (of seed) 2. (concretely) seed (as sown) [from G4687] KJV: seed (X sown) Root(s): G4687
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4703. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
seed
Usage: σπόρος, -ου, ὁ (σπείρω), [in LXX chiefly for זֶרַע ;] = σπορά, __1. sowing or seedtime. __2. seed sown (so usually in late Gk.): Mrk.4:26-27, Luk.8:5, 11, 2Co.9:10 a (LTr.); metaphorically, of almsgiving, 2Co.9:10 b.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sporos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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.
Strong's G4703 (σπόρος) appears 12 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
10 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: there shall be rest in seedtime and harvest.
And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full; and ye shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.
And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Thine eye desireth favor and beauty: But more than both the first sprouting of corn.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
be full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4703.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: there shall be rest in seedtime and harvest.
And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full; and ye shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.
And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.
And if a man should hallow to the Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed, fifty didrachmas of silver for a homer of barley.
For the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, whensoever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:
Their seed is according to their desire, And their children are in their sight.
And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, And bring it in to thy threshing floor?
Will the plowman plow all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
Remember for a full year in pain, yet with hope: the vintage has been cut off, it has ceased, it shall by no means come again.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the harvest shall overtake the vintage, and the grapes shall ripen at seedtime; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall be planted.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
Thine eye desireth favor and beauty: But more than both the first sprouting of corn.
be full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4703, grouped by book.
Strong's G4703 is a Greek entry for G4703 σπόρος (sporos). sporos (spor'-os) n. 1. a scattering (of seed) 2. (concretely) seed (as sown)
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's G4703 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4703 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as seed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 10 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4703, with linked reader references where each row is available.