And God spoke thus, that Abraham’s descendants (sperma | σπέρμα | nom sg neut) would be sojourners in a foreign land, and that the people would enslave and mistreat them four hundred years.
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants (spermati | σπέρματι | dat sg neut) after him, though as yet Abraham had no child.
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring (spermati | σπέρματι | dat sg neut) shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’
I know that you are Abraham’s descendants (sperma | σπέρμα | nom sg neut); but you are intent on killing me, because my teaching makes no headway in you.
They replied to him, “We are descendants (sperma | σπέρμα | nom sg neut) of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”
Has not the scripture said that the Christ will be a descendant (spermatos | σπέρματος | gen sg neut) of David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was born?”
saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone’s brother dies, having a wife, but is childless, then his brother must take the widow and raise up offspring (sperma | σπέρμα | acc sg neut) for his brother.
