זֶרַעzeraʻ
sowing, seed, offspring
Pronunciation: zeh'-rah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2233
Meanings
1. literal
a. sowing (Genesis 47:24; Leviticus 27:16; Numbers 20:5)
b. sowing (Genesis 8:22; Leviticus 26:5; Amos 9:13)
2. seed
b. the dropping of seed, id. (Isaiah 17:11; Psalms 126:6; Jeremiah 35:7)
c. seed (Numbers 11:7; Exodus 16:31; Genesis 1:11)
d. seed (Deuteronomy 22:9; 1 Samuel 8:15; Leviticus 27:30)
e. the crop is security, the growth of peace (Zechariah 8:12; Genesis 1:11; Leviticus 26:16)
3. seed, = semen virile (Numbers 5:28; Leviticus 22:4; Leviticus 15:16)
4. seed, = offspring
b. descendants, posterity; seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15; Genesis 12:17; Genesis 13:15)
c. seed (Genesis 21:13; Genesis 24:60; Genesis 48:19)
d. of a particular child (Genesis 4:25; 1 Samuel 1:11; Leviticus 18:21)
e. family (Genesis 17:12; 1 Kings 11:14; 2 Kings 11:1)
f. seed of Abraham (Isaiah 41:8; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Jeremiah 33:26)
g. seed (Deuteronomy 28:46; Deuteronomy 28:59; Deuteronomy 30:6)
5. seed, as marked by moral quality = persons (or community) of such a quality (Isaiah 65:23; Isaiah 61:9; Isaiah 65:9)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 229 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 3:15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Genesis 4:25 Adam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, “God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.”
- Genesis 7:3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood.
See every passage
- Genesis 1:11, 1:12, 1:29, 3:15, 4:25, 7:3, 8:22, 9:9, 12:7, 13:15, 13:16, 15:3, 15:5, 15:13, 15:18, 16:10, 17:7, 17:8, 17:9, 17:10, 17:12, 17:19, 19:32, 19:34, 21:12, 21:13, 22:17, 22:18, 24:7, 24:60, 26:3, 26:4, 26:24, 28:4, 28:13, 28:14, 32:12, 35:12, 38:8, 38:9, 46:6, 46:7, 47:19, 47:23, 47:24, 48:4, 48:11, 48:19
- Exodus 16:31, 28:43, 30:21, 32:13, 33:1
- Leviticus 11:37, 11:38, 15:16, 15:17, 15:18, 15:32, 18:20, 18:21, 19:20, 20:2, 20:3, 20:4, 21:15, 21:17, 21:21, 22:3, 22:4, 22:13, 26:5, 26:16, 27:16, 27:30
- Numbers 5:13, 5:28, 11:7, 14:24, 16:40, 18:19, 20:5, 24:7, 25:13
- Deuteronomy 1:8, 4:37, 10:15, 11:9, 11:10, 14:22, 22:9, 28:38, 28:46, 28:59, 30:6, 30:19, 31:21, 34:4
- Joshua 24:3
- Ruth 4:12
- 1 Samuel 1:11, 2:20, 8:15, 20:42, 24:21
- 2 Samuel 4:8, 7:12, 22:51
- 1 Kings 2:33, 11:14, 11:39, 18:32
- 2 Kings 5:27, 11:1, 17:20, 25:25
- 1 Chronicles 16:13, 17:11
- 2 Chronicles 20:7, 22:10
- Ezra 2:59, 9:2
- Nehemiah 7:61, 9:2, 9:8
- Esther 6:13, 9:27, 9:28, 9:31, 10:3
- Job 5:25, 21:8, 39:12
- Psalms 18:50, 21:10, 22:23, 22:30, 25:13, 37:25, 37:26, 37:28, 69:36, 89:4, 89:29, 89:36, 102:28, 105:6, 106:27, 112:2, 126:6
- Proverbs 11:21
- Ecclesiastes 11:6
- Isaiah 1:4, 5:10, 6:13, 14:20, 17:11, 23:3, 30:23, 41:8, 43:5, 44:3, 45:19, 45:25, 48:19, 53:10, 54:3, 55:10, 57:3, 57:4, 59:21, 61:9, 65:9, 65:23, 66:22
- Jeremiah 2:21, 7:15, 22:28, 22:30, 23:8, 29:32, 30:10, 31:27, 31:36, 31:37, 33:22, 33:26, 35:7, 35:9, 36:31, 41:1, 46:27, 49:10
- Ezekiel 17:5, 17:13, 20:5, 43:19, 44:22
- Daniel 1:3, 9:1
- Amos 9:13
- Haggai 2:19
- Zechariah 8:12
- Malachi 2:3, 2:15
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).