זָרַעzâraʻ
זָרַע: sow, scatter seed
Pronunciation: zaw-rah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2232
Meanings
Qal: active (Judges 6:3; Jeremiah 31:27; Hosea 2:25)
1. sow, literally
a. sow (Judges 6:3; Genesis 26:12; Isaiah 28:24)
2. of shrub and tree producing, yielding seed, with accusative of cognate meaning with verb (Genesis 1:29)
3. figurative
a. sowing (Hosea 2:25; Zechariah 10:9)
c. sow not in among thorns (Hosea 10:12; Proverbs 11:18; Jeremiah 4:3)
Niph`al: be sown, fructified (Numbers 5:28; Ezekiel 36:9; Nahum 1:14)
1. be sown
b. no more of thy name be sown (Leviticus 11:37; Nahum 1:14)
2. be fructified, made pregnant (Numbers 5:28)
Pu`al: of princes and judges under figure of trees (Isaiah 40:24)
Hiph`il
1. produce seed, of herb, with accusative of cognate meaning with verb (Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12)
2. of a woman, = bear a child (Leviticus 12:2)
זרע: seed (Daniel 2:43)
Same root
- זְרוֹעַzᵉrôwaʻ · H2220the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force
- זֵרוּעַzêrûwaʻ · H2221something sown, i.e. a plant
- זֶרַעzeraʻ · H2233seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
- זֵרֹעַzêrôaʻ · H2235something sown (only in the plural), i.e. a vegetable (as food)
- יִזְרְעֵאלYizrᵉʻêʼl · H3157Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites
- מִזְרָעmizrâʻ · H4218a planted field
Where it appears
Appears 56 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.
- Genesis 1:12 The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.
- Genesis 26:12 When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the Lord blessed him.
- Genesis 47:23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. I will provide you with seed so you can plant the fields.
- Exodus 23:10 “Plant and harvest your crops for six years,
See every passage
- Genesis 1:11, 1:12, 1:29, 26:12, 47:23
- Exodus 23:10, 23:16
- Leviticus 11:37, 12:2, 19:19, 25:3, 25:4, 25:11, 25:20, 25:22, 26:16
- Numbers 5:28
- Deuteronomy 11:10, 21:4, 22:9, 29:23
- Judges 6:3, 9:45
- 2 Kings 19:29
- Job 4:8, 31:8
- Psalms 97:11, 107:37, 126:5
- Proverbs 11:18, 22:8
- Ecclesiastes 11:4, 11:6
- Isaiah 17:10, 28:24, 30:23, 32:20, 37:30, 40:24, 55:10
- Jeremiah 2:2, 4:3, 12:13, 31:27, 35:7, 50:16
- Ezekiel 36:9
- Hosea 2:23, 8:7, 10:12
- Micah 6:15
- Nahum 1:14
- Haggai 1:6
- Zechariah 10:9
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).