Lexicon zizanion: zizanium (a kind of darnel resembling wheat) Original Word: ζιζάνιον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: zizanion Phonetic Spelling: (dziz-an'-ee-on) Short Definition: spurious wheat, darnel Definition: spurious wheat, darnel; a plant that grows in Palestine which resembles wheat in many ways but is worthless. HELPS word-Studies 2215 zizánion (plural, tares/zizania) – a tare (darnel); (figuratively) a pseudo-believer (false Christian); a fruitless person living without faith from God and therefore is "all show and no go!" NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of Sumer. origin Definitionzizanium (a kind of darnel resembling wheat) NASB Translationtares (8).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2215: ζιζάνιονζιζάνιον, ζιζανιου, τό (doubtless a word of Semitic origin; Arabic , Syriac )NzYz [] (see Schaaf, Lex. under the word, p. 148), Talmud זֲוָנִין or זוּנִין; Suidas ζιζάνιον. ἡ ἐν τῷ σίτῳ αἰρα), zizanium (A. V. tares), a kind of darnel, bastard wheat (but see references below), resembling wheat except that the grains are black: Matthew 13:25-27, 29f, 38, 38, 40. (Geoponica (for references see B. D. American edition, p. 3177 note)). Cf. Winers RWB under the word Lolch; Furrer in Schenkel B. L. 4:57; (B. D., and Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, under the word ).
Strong's tares. Of uncertain origin; darnel or false grain -- tares. |
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