Exodus 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
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James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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σπείρω
speírō · spi'-ro
15 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
to scatter, i.e. sow (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sow(- er), receive seed.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 13:19Strong's last: James 3:18
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zâraʻ · zaw-rah'
14 times translated as this KJV form56 total Strong's occurrences
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
Strong's KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 23:16Strong's last: Haggai 1:6
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spóros · spro'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a scattering (of seed), i.e. (concretely) seed (as sown)
Strong's KJV usage: :--seed (X sown).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 9:10Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 9:10
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zêrûwaʻ · zay-roo'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
something sown, i.e. a plant
Strong's KJV usage: sowing, thing that is sown.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 61:11Strong's last: Isaiah 61:11
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mizrâʻ · miz-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a planted field
Strong's KJV usage: thing sown.
Strong's first: Isaiah 19:7Strong's last: Isaiah 19:7
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And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
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And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
G4687
And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
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And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
G4687
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
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But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
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sown
SOWN, participle passive Scattered, as seed; sprinkled with seed, as ground.
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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