Quick Definition
σπορά, ᾶς, ἡ n.f. seed
Strong's Definition
from 4687; a sowing, i.e. (by implication) parentage
KJV Usage: seed
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ᾶς | σπείρω
10.23 · Kinship Terms · Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations
parentage (a figurative extension of meaning of σπορά ‘sowing of seed,’ not occurring in the NT) the instrumental means of birth
1 1PE 1:23 It is also possible to understand σπορά in 1PE 1:23 as referring to the process of procreation as being analogical to the sowing of seed, but the attributives φθαρτῆς and ἀφθάρτου would seem to shift the meaning of σπορά to parentage. It is possible that this use of σπορά in 1PE 1:23 represents a case of figurative usage rather than conventionalized figurative meaning.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σπορά, -as, ἡ, (σπείρω, 2 pf. €amupa), seed: 1 Pet. i. 23 [( q. a sowing, fig. origin, etc., fr. Aeschyl., Plat., down) }.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σπορά spora 1x
a sowing; seed sown; met. generative seed, generation, 1 Pet. 1:23*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σπορά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< σπείρω), [in LXX: IV Ki 19:29 (זרע), I Mac 10:30 * ;]
a sowing.
seedtime.
seed sown (of human offspring, Soph., Tr., 316, 420): I Pe 1:23
(cf. σπέρμα, and v. Milligan, NTD, 105 f.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σπορά in its only NT occurrence, 1 Pet 1538, has the quasi-collective meaning ‘‘seed’’: cf. P Leid χε δι (ii/iii a.p.) (= IT. Ῥ. 121) ἐφάνη yévva . . . πάντων κρατοῦσα σποράν, δι᾿ ἧς τὰ πάντα ἐσπάρη, “semen, per quod omnia seminata sunt.”’ For the more regular usage ‘‘a sowing”’ of seed, we may cite such passages as BGU II. 586" (no date) τὴν τοῦ [ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους σποράν, P Ryl 11. 168° (a.p. 120) (ἀρούρας) τρεῖς εἰς σπορὰν λαχάνου, P Grenf II. 57 (A.D. 168) τὴν ἐπικει[μέν]ην σποράν, and P Oxy I. 103° (A.D. 316) ἄρουραν pelay εἰς σπορὰν λινοκαλάμης (‘‘ fine flax’: cf. Josh 2°). «
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σπορά (spora) — seed. σπορ-ά, ἡ, (σπείρω) sowing of seed, σπερμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+] __b of children, σπορᾶς γε μὴν ἐκ τῆσδε from this origin, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοιοῦτος ὢν τοιῷδ᾽ ὀνειδίζεις σπορά; his origin, birth.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+]; procreation, παίδων, γένους, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν Ῥωμύλου σ. begetting, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
2. seed-time, sowing-time, ἀπὸ τῆς σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; δεκέτεσιν σποραῖσιν in the tenth seed-time, i.e. year, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. seed, [NT]; field sown, ξηρὰ σ. dry land, uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. δράκοντος ground sown with the dragon's teeth, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. b of persons, seed, offspring, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: plural, young ones, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+]. the female race, [Refs]; θήλεια σ. [Refs]