Corn, Cornfield
Corn, Cornfield
“wheat, corn;” in the plural, “grain,” is translated “corn” in Mar 4:28; “wheat,” Mat 3:12; Mat 13:25, Mat 13:29-30; 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.
“corn, grain,” a diminutive of No. 1, is found in Act 7:12.
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”).
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 9:9-10; 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.