Strong's Number 4690
Transliteration:
sperma
{sper'-mah}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
7:536,1065
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
seed 43, issue 1
Total: 44
Definition:
- from which a plant germinates
- the seed i.e. the grain or kernel which contains within itself the germ of the future plants
- of the grains or kernels sown
- 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
- the product of this semen, seed, children, offspring, progeny
- family, race, posterity
- whatever possesses vital force or life giving power
- of divine energy of the Holy Spirit operating within the soul by which we are regenerated