"wheat, corn;" in the plural, "grain," is translated "corn" in Mar 4:28; "wheat," Mat 3:12, Mat 13:25, Mat 1:13-30, Luk 3:17, Luk 12:18 (some mss. have genemata, "fruits," here); Luk 16:7, Luk 22:31, Joh 12:24, Act 27:38, 1Co 15:37, Rev 6:6, Rev 18:13. See WHEAT.
<2,,4621, sition>
"corn, grain," a diminutive of No. 1, is found in Act 7:12.
<3,,4702, sporimos>
lit., "sown, or fit for sowing" (speiro "to sow, scatter seed"), denotes, in the plural, "sown fields, fields of grain, cornfields," Mat 12:1, RV; Mar 2:23, Luk 6:1 (cp. spora, 1Pe 1:23, and sporos, "seed").
<4,,4719, stachus>
means "an ear of grain," Mat 12:1, Mar 2:23, Mar 4:28, Luk 6:1. Cp. the name Stachys in Rom 16:9.
Notes: (1) Aloao, "to thresh," from alon, "a threshing-floor," is translated "treadeth out (the) corn," in 1Co 1:9-10, 1Ti 5:18. Cp. THRESH, TREAD.
(2) Kokkos, "a grain" (its regular meaning), is translated "corn" in the AV of Joh 12:24 (RV, "grain"). See GRAIN.
