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σπέρματι (spermati)

σπέρματι is an Ancient Greek form of σπέρμα, meaning “seed”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 4: … υτουργὸν ἐπιστήμονα, εἶτα τὰ σπέρματα σπουδαῖα, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον γῇ μὲν ἔοικεν ἡ φύσις, γεωργῷ δʼ ὁ παιδεύων, σπέρματι δʼ αἱ τῶν λόγων ὑποθῆκαι καὶ τὰ παραγγέλματα. ταῦτα πάντα διατεινάμενος ἂν εἴποιμʼ ὅτι συνῆλθε καὶ συνέπνευσε …

New Testament, Acts 3.25: ὑμεῖς ἐστὲ οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν προφητῶν καὶ τῆς διαθήκης ἧς ὁ θεὸς διέθετο πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ὑμῶν, λέγων πρὸς Ἀβραάμ Καὶ ἐν τῷ σπέρματί σου εὐλογηθήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ πατριαὶ τῆς γῆς.

All forms of σπέρμα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.