zizanion · weeds, darnel

What it means

zizanion (ζιζάνιον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “weeds, darnel”.

Darnel, weeds: a plant that looks like wheat while it grows but gives a poisonous grain.

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. A weed that looks like wheat but is useless.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Where it appears

• Matthew 13:25

  But while people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.

• Matthew 13:26

  And when the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel appeared also.

• Matthew 13:27

  And the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where does it get darnel?’

• Matthew 13:29

  But he says, ‘No, so that while gathering the darnel you do not uproot the wheat along with them.

• Matthew 13:30

  Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the darnel first and tie it in bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

• Matthew 13:36

  Then leaving the crowds, he went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.”

• Matthew 13:38

  and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the darnel are the sons of the evil one;

• Matthew 13:40

  So just as the darnel is gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.