Strong's Greek · G4621

σῖτος

sîtos

corn, wheat

Definition

grain, especially wheat

Derivation

of uncertain derivation;

Appears 15 times in Scripture

Matthew 13:25

But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

Luke 3:17

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.”

Mark 4:28

All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.

Luke 12:18

Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.

Acts 27:38

After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

1 Corinthians 15:37

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

Matthew 3:12

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

John 12:24

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.

Acts 7:12

When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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