epispeiro describes an enemy’s act of sowing weeds among standing grain.

The attested use describes sowing weeds into the midst of grain as an enemy’s covert act while people sleep.

1. Sowing weeds among grain · dominant

   In Matthew 13:25, ἐπέσπειρεν is a third-person singular aorist active indicative verb describing what the enemy did after coming while the humans slept: the APB renders the clause, “sowed weeds throughout the midst of the grain.”

   Matthew 13:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Matthew 13:25, the APB presents the action as the enemy having “sowed weeds throughout the midst of the grain.” This wording confirms the clause’s overall action rather than isolating each element of the verb.