Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears. 2. (n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty. 3. (v. i.) To germinate.

Multi-Version Concordance Germ (2 Occurrences) 1 Peter 1:23 For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life. (WEY) 1 John 3:9 No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot habitually sin--because he is a child of God. (WEY)