Grain
σῖτοςStrong’s G4621sitos
Appears in 14 verses of the New Testament
In short
Sitos is the Greek word usually translated “wheat” and “grain”. It appears in 14 verses of the New Testament.
“Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Meaning
Usually translated “wheat” and “grain”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- wheat 7
- of wheat 4
- grain 2
- the wheat 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 4
- Luke 4
- Revelation 2
- Mark 1
- John 1
- Acts 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 13:25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
- Matthew 13:29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
- Matthew 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
- Mark 4:28For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
- Luke 3:17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
- Luke 12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Greek dictionary
σῖτος sitos · grain
σῖτος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for דָּגָן ;] wheat, corn: Mat.3:12 13:25, 29-30 Mrk.4:28, Luk.3:17 12:18 16:7 22:32, Jhn.12:24, Act.27:38, 1Co.15:37, Rev.6:6 18:13.† σιτίοι, -ου, τό (dimin. of σῖτος), [in LXX: Pro.30:22 (לֶחֶם)* ;] 1. corn, grain: Act.7:12 (but see 131., § 9, 1). 2. Mostly in pl., σιτία, bread, food, provisions (LXX, l.with, Hdt., al.).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRAIN, noun
[Latin granum.]
- Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel.
- A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast.
- grain without a definitive, signifies corn in general, or the fruit of certain plants which constitutes the chief food of man and beast, as wheat, rye, barley, oats and maiz.
- A minute particle.
All definitions and other forms of “grain”
- A small weight, or the smallest weight ordinarily used, being the twentieth part of the scruple in apothecaries' weight, and the twenty fourth of a pennyweight troy.
- A component part of stones and metals.
- The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain
- The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.
- The body or substance of a thing considered with respect to the size, form or direction of the constituent particles; as stones of a fine grain
- Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.
- Dyed or stained substance.
- The direction of the fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; hence the phrase, against the grain applied to animals, that is, against their natural tempers.
- The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain
- The form of the surface of any thing with respect to smoothness or roughness; state of the grit of any body composed of grains; as sandstone of a fine grain
- A tine, prong or spike.
GRAIN, verb intransitive
To yield fruit.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.