Strong's Number G4690

σπέρμα

sperma · sper'-mah

Transliteration:

sperma{sper'-mah}

Word Origin:

from 4687

TDNT:

7:536,1065

Part of Speech:

noun neuter

Strong's Definition:

something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm"); by implication, offspring; specially, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting)

Usage in the KJV:

seed 43, issue 1

Total: 44
Occurs 43 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

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