phyteuō · plant

What it means

phyteuō (φυτεύω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “plant”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To set a tree or vineyard in the ground.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• planted ×6
• plants ×3
• plant ×1
• they were planting ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×4
• 1 Corinthians×4

• Matthew 15:13

  But he answered and said, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

• Matthew 21:33

  Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Mark 12:1

  And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Luke 13:6

  And he was telling this parable: “Someone had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it, and did not find any.

• Luke 17:6

  And the Lord said, “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

• Luke 17:28

  Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

• Luke 20:9

  And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad for a long time.

• 1 Corinthians 3:6

  I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving the growth.

• 1 Corinthians 3:7

  So neither the one who plants is anything, nor the one who waters, but God who gives the growth.

• 1 Corinthians 3:8

  Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

• 1 Corinthians 9:7

  Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?