Amos 9:9
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
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Grain
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1 Corinthians 15:37
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
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κόκκος
kókkos · kok'-kos
6 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a kernel of seed
Strong's KJV usage: :--corn, grain.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:31Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 15:37
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tsᵉrôwr · tser-ore'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a parcel (as packed up); also a kernel or particle (as if a package)
Strong's KJV usage: bag, × bendeth, bundle, least grain, small stone.
Strong's first: Amos 9:9Strong's last: Amos 9:9
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G2848
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
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And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
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grain
GRAIN, noun [Latin granum.]
1. Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel. Hence,
2. A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast. This is usually inclosed in a proper shell or covered with a husk, and contains the embryo of a new plant. Hence,
3. 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.
4. A minute particle.
5. 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.
6. A component part of stones and metals.
7. The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain
8. The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.
Hard box, and linden of a softer grain
9. 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
The tooth of a sea-horse, contains a curdled grain
10. Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.
Neglect not to make use of any grain of grace.
11. Dyed or stained substance.
All in a robe of darkest grain
12. 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.
13. The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain
14. 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
15. A tine, prong or spike.
A grain of allowance, a small allowance or indulgence; a small portion to be remitted; something above or below just weight.
To dye in grain is to dye in the raw material, as wool or silk before it is manufactured.
GRAIN, verb intransitive To yield fruit.
GRAIN, or GRANE, for groan. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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