{"def":{"short":"something sown, i.e., seed (including the male \"sperm\"); by implication, offspring; specially, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting)","long":["from which a plant germinates",["the seed i.e., the grain or kernel which contains within itself the germ of the future plants",["of the grains or kernels sown"],"metaphorically a seed i.e., a residue, or a few survivors reserved as the germ of a new race (just as seed is kept from the harvest for the sowing)"],"the semen virile",["the product of this semen, seed, children, offspring, progeny","family, race, posterity","whatever possesses vital force or life giving power",["of divine energy of the Holy Spirit operating within the soul by which we are regenerated"]]]},"deriv":"from G4687","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈspɛr.mɑ","ipa_mod":"ˈspe̞r.mɑ","sbl":"sperma","dic":"SPER-ma","dic_mod":"SPARE-ma"},"see":["G4687"]}