Corn, Cornfield - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Corn, Cornfield

[ 1,,G4621, sitos ]
wheat, corn;" in the plural, "grain," is translated "corn" in Mark 4:28; "wheat," Matthew 3:12; Matthew 13:25, Matthew 13:29-Matthew 13:30; Luke 3:17; Luke 12:18 (some mss. have genemata, "fruits," here); Luke 16:7; Luke 22:31; John 12:24; Acts 27:38; 1 Corinthians 15:37; Revelation 6:6; Revelation 18:13. See WHEAT.

[ 2,,G4621, sition ]
"corn, grain," a diminutive of No. 1, is found in Acts 7:12.

[ 3,,G4702, sporimos ]
lit., "sown, or fit for sowing" (speiro "to sow, scatter seed"), denotes, in the plural, "sown fields, fields of grain, cornfields," Matthew 12:1, RV; Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1 (cp. spora, 1 Peter 1:23, and sporos, "seed").

[ 4,,G4719, stachus ]
means "an ear of grain," Matthew 12:1; Mark 2:23; Mark 4:28; Luke 6:1. Cp. the name Stachys in Romans 16:9.

Notes:

(1) Aloao, "to thresh," from alon, "a threshing-floor," is translated "treadeth out (the) corn," in 1 Corinthians 9:9-10; 1 Timothy 5:18. Cp. THRESH, TREAD.



(2) Kokkos, "a grain" (its regular meaning), is translated "corn" in the AV of John 12:24 (RV, "grain"). See GRAIN.

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