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Corn, Cornfield
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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"wheat, corn;" in the plural, "grain," is translated "corn" in Mark 4:28; "wheat," Matthew 3:12; 13:25,29,30; Luke 3:17; 12:18 (some mss. have genemata, "fruits," here); Luke 16:7; 22:31; John 12:24; Acts 27:38; 1 Corinthians 15:37; Revelation 6:6; 18:13 . See WHEAT.
"corn, grain," a diminutive of No. 1, is found in Acts 7:12 .
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").
means "an ear of grain," Matthew 12:1; Mark 2:23; 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.Copyright Statement
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Corn, Cornfield'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/c/corn-cornfield.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Corn, Cornfield'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/c/corn-cornfield.html. 1940.
