Quick Definition
a head ofgrain
Strong's Definition
a head of grain (as standing out from the stalk)
Derivation: from the base of G2476 (ἵστημι);
KJV Usage: ear (of corn)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
στάχυς, σταχυνος (cf. Buttmann, 14), ὁ (connected with the root, sta, ἵστημι; Curtius, p. 721), from Homer down, the Sept. for ωΔΡαΙΜμΖϊ, an ear of corn (or growing grain): Mat_12:1; Mar_2:23; Mar_4:28; Luk_6:1.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
στάχυς stachus 5x
an ear of corn, head of grain, Mat_12:1 ; Mar_2:23 ; Mar_4:28 ; Luk_6:1
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
στάχυς , -υος , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H7641 ;]
an ear of corn : Mat_12:1 , Mar_2:23 ; Mar_4:28 , Luk_6:1 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
στάχυς [page 587]
an ear of corn ( Mat_12:1 , al. ), is found several times in the farm accounts P Lond 131 recto .498, al. (A.D. 78 79) (= I. p. 184) : cf. Aristeas 63 βοτρύων καὶ σταχύων , vine clusters and corn-ears, and M. Anton. vii. 40 βίον θερίζειν , ὥστε κάρπιμον στάχυν , our lives are reaped like the ripe ears of corn.
For the acc. plur. στάχυας , as in Gen_41:7 , Mat_12:1 , see Thackeray Gr. i. p. 147. Mayser ( Gr. i. p. 267) cites an instance of the acc. plur. στάχυς from a papyrus of B.C. 236. On the use of στάχυς in Jdg_12:6 , see Plater Vulgate Grammar , p. 13 n. .2 MGr στάχυ , or, with prothetic vowel, ἀστάχυ (a form that is found as early as Homer Il. ii. 148 ἄσταχυς ). Among cognate words with meaning pointed, Boisacq (p. 904) notes the English sting.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
στάχυς "an ear of corn", Lat. spica, Il. , Hes. , etc.:—metaph., στ. ἄτης Aesch. ; of the Theban Σπαρτοί, Eur. generally, "a scion, child, progeny", Anth.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
στάχυς, -υος, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for שִׁבֹּל ;]
an ear of corn: Mat.12:1, Mrk.2:23 4:28, Luk.6:1.†
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