Strong's #4690: sperma (pronounced sper'-mah)

from 4687; something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm"); by implication, offspring; specially, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting):--issue, seed.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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sperma

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

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G4687

Citing in TDNT: 7:536, 1065

Usage:

This word is used 44 times:

 

Matthew 13:24: "a man which sowed good seed in his field:"
Matthew 13:27: "didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence"
Matthew 13:32: "is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is"
Matthew 13:37: "He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;"
Matthew 13:38: "world; the good seed are the children"
Matthew 22:24: "wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."
Matthew 22:25: "and, having no issue, left his wife unto his"
Mark 4:31: "less than all the seeds that be in the"
Mark 12:19: "wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."
Mark 12:20: "dying left no seed."
Mark 12:21: "neither left he any seed: and the third likewise."
Mark 12:22: "and left no seed: last of all the woman"
Luke 1:55: "to Abraham, and to his seed forever."
Luke 20:28: "his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."
John 7:42: "cometh of the seed of David, and out of the"
John 8:33: "him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man:"
John 8:37: "that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me,"
Acts 3:25: "Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the"
Acts 7:5: "for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he"
Acts 7:6: "on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange"
Acts 13:23: "Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel"
Romans 1:3: "which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;"
Romans 4:13: "to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through"
Romans 4:16: "might be sure to all the seed; not to that only"
Romans 4:18: "to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be."
Romans 9:7: "Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but,"
Romans 9:7: "In Isaac shall thy seed be called."
Romans 9:8: "promise are counted for the seed."
Romans 9:29: "of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom,"
Romans 11:1: "also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."
1 Corinthians 15:38: "it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body."
2 Corinthians 9:10: "Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread"
2 Corinthians 11:22: "they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I."
Galatians 3:16: "to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith"
Galatians 3:16: "He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but"
Galatians 3:16: "one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."
Galatians 3:19: "of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;"
Galatians 3:29: "then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
2 Timothy 2:8: "that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead"
Hebrews 2:16: "he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham."
Hebrews 11:11: "strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age,"
Hebrews 11:18: "in Isaac shall thy seed be called:"
1 John 3:9: "sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and"
Revelation 12:17: "the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God,"