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G04687

An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon Keyed to Strong's Numbers

σπείρω

"to sow":

I. "to sow" seed, Hes., attic

2. "to sow" children, "to engender, beget them", Soph.:—Pass. "to be born", id=Soph., Eur.

3. "to scatter like seed, strew, throw about", χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον Hdt.; δρόσον Eur.:—"to spread abroad", as Virgil "spargere voces", Soph.:—Pass. "to be scattered, dispersed", Eur., Thuc.

II. "to sow" a field, Hes., Hdt., etc.: Pass., ἡ σπειρομένη Αἴγυπτος "the arable part of" Egypt, Hdt.

2. proverb., πόντον σπείρειν, "of lost labour", Theogn.