Lexical Summary
sinapi: Mustard
Original Word: σίναπι
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: sinapi
Pronunciation: see'-nah-pee
Phonetic Spelling: (sin'-ap-ee)
KJV: mustard
NASB: mustard
Word Origin: [perhaps from sinomai "to hurt, i.e. sting"]
1. mustard (the plant)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
mustard.
Perhaps from sinomai (to hurt, i.e. Sting); mustard (the plant) -- mustard.
HELPS Word-studies
4615 sínapi – a mustard plant ("tree"), always used in connection with its seed (the smallest of all Palestinian seeds in common use).
[The mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds that a Palestinian farmer would sow in his field. A mustard plant reaches a height of three meters (about ten feet). This is a huge plant when fully matured and bears very tiny seeds.]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originof Eg. origin
Definitionmustard (a plant)
NASB Translationmustard (5).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4615: σίναπισίναπι (also
σινηπι (but not in the N. T.), both later for the Attic
νᾶπυ (so accented in late authors, better
νᾶπυ), see
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 288) (thought to be of Egyptian origin; cf.
Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word
νᾶπυ),
σινάπεως (
Buttmann, 14 (13)),
τό,
mustard, the name of a plant which in oriental countries grows from a very small seed and attains to the height of 'a tree' — ten feet and more; hence, a very small quantity of a thing is likened to a
κόκκος σινάπεως (
A. V. a grain of mustard seed),
Matthew 17:20;
Luke 17:6; and also a thing which grows to a remarkable size,
Matthew 13:31;
Mark 4:31;
Luke 13:19. (Cf.
B. D., under the word
