Luke 8:5
New Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it."
Word-by-Word Analysis
זָרַע
zâraʻ
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
זָרַע
zâraʻ
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
זֶרַע
zeraʻ
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
זָרַע
zâraʻ
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
פֵּאָה
pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
דָּרַךְ
dârak
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)
עוֹף
ʻôwph
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּרַךְ dârak
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)
Study H1869 →שָׁמַיִם shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
Study H8064 →עוֹף ʻôwph
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
Study H5775 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →פֵּאָה pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
Study H6285 →Cross References
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
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