sitos · wheat

What it means

sitos (σῖτος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wheat”.

The grain and the food made from it.

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. The cereal from which bread was made.

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

How it is translated

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

• wheat ×12
• grain ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×1
• Luke×4
• John×1
• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 3:12

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Matthew 13:25

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

• 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.”’”

• Mark 4:28

  By itself the earth bears fruit, first the blade, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

• Luke 3:17

  His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Luke 12:18

  And he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and my goods.

• Luke 16:7

  Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

• Luke 22:31

  Simon, Simon, look, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift you like wheat;

• John 12:24

  Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

• Acts 7:12

  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

• Acts 27:38

  And when they had eaten their fill of food, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

• 1 Corinthians 15:37

  And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.

• Revelation 6:6

  And I heard something like a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”

• Revelation 18:13

  and cinnamon and amomum and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and horses and carriages and bodies, and souls of human beings.