זֶ֫רַע
seed
also: sowing, offspring fuller range ↓
H2233
Strong's Hebrew
zeraʻ
Transliteration
/zeh'-rah/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
227
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
seed, sowing, offspring
- a sowing
- seed
- semen virile
- offspring, descendants, posterity, children
- of moral quality
- a practitioner of righteousness (figuratively)
- sowing time (by metonymy)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 179 times (79%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 47 times (21%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 227 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Genesis 48 verses
- Genesis 1:11 זֶ֔רַע זַרְע/וֹ n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 זֶ֨רַע֙ זַרְע/וֹ n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:29 זֶ֗רַע זָ֑רַע n c ms n c ms God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 3:15 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ זַרְעָ֑/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
- Genesis 4:25 זֶ֣רַע n c ms Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 7:3 זֶ֖רַע n c ms Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 8:22 זֶ֡רַע n c ms While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
- Genesis 9:9 זַרְעֲ/כֶ֖ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- Genesis 12:7 לְ/זַ֨רְעֲ/ךָ֔ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 13:15 וּֽ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Genesis 13:16 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
- Genesis 15:3 זָ֑רַע n c ms Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
- Genesis 15:5 זַרְעֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
- Genesis 15:13 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֗ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
- Genesis 15:18 לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֗ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 16:10 זַרְעֵ֑/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
- Genesis 17:7 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֧ וּֽ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
- Genesis 17:8 וּ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֨ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
- Genesis 17:9 וְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֥ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
- Genesis 17:10 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
- Genesis 17:12 מִֽ/זַּרְעֲ/ךָ֖ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner who is not of your seed.
- Genesis 17:19 לְ/זַרְע֥/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
- Genesis 19:32 זָֽרַע n c ms Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
- Genesis 19:34 זָֽרַע n c ms It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
- Genesis 21:12 זָֽרַע n c ms God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
- Genesis 21:13 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is your seed."
- Genesis 22:17 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 22:18 בְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
- Genesis 24:7 לְ/זַ֨רְעֲ/ךָ֔ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:60 זַרְעֵ֔/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
- Genesis 26:3 וּֽ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֗ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
- Genesis 26:4 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ בְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
- Genesis 26:24 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
- Genesis 28:4 וּ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֣ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
- Genesis 28:13 וּ/לְ/זַרְעֶֽ/ךָ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
- Genesis 28:14 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ וּ/בְ/זַרְעֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Genesis 32:12 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
- Genesis 35:12 וּֽ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֥ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
- Genesis 38:8 זֶ֖רַע n c ms Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
- Genesis 38:9 הַ/זָּ֑רַע זֶ֖רַע ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
- Genesis 46:6 זַרְע֥/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms They took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt-- Jacob, and all his seed with him,
- Genesis 46:7 זַרְע֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
- Genesis 47:19 זֶ֗רַע n c ms Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."
- Genesis 47:23 זֶ֔רַע n c ms Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
- Genesis 47:24 לְ/זֶ֨רַע prep + n c ms cs It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."
- Genesis 48:4 לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֥ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
- Genesis 48:11 זַרְעֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and, behold, God has let me see your seed also."
- Genesis 48:19 וְ/זַרְע֖/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 16:31 כְּ/זֶ֤רַע prep + n c ms cs The house of Israel called the name of it Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
- Exodus 28:43 וּ/לְ/זַרְע֥/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
- Exodus 30:21 וּ/לְ/זַרְע֖/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."
- Exodus 32:13 זַרְעֲ/כֶ֔ם לְ/זַרְעֲ/כֶ֔ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
- Exodus 33:1 לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'
Leviticus 22 verses
- Leviticus 11:37 זֶ֥רַע n c ms If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
- Leviticus 11:38 זֶ֔רַע n c ms But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 15:16 זָ֑רַע n c ms "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:17 זָ֑רַע n c ms Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:18 זָ֑רַע n c ms If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:32 זֶ֖רַע n c ms This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
- Leviticus 18:20 לְ/זָ֑רַע prep + n c ms "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
- Leviticus 18:21 וּ/מִֽ/זַּרְעֲ/ךָ֥ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 19:20 זֶ֗רַע n c ms "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 20:2 מִ/זַּרְע֛/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 20:3 מִ/זַּרְע/וֹ֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
- Leviticus 20:4 מִ/זַּרְע֖/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;
- Leviticus 21:15 זַרְע֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"
- Leviticus 21:17 מִֽ/זַּרְעֲ/ךָ֞ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
- Leviticus 21:21 מִ/זֶּ֨רַע֙ prep + n c ms cs no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
- Leviticus 22:3 זַרְעֲ/כֶ֗ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 22:4 מִ/זֶּ֣רַע זָֽרַע prep + n c ms cs n c ms "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
- Leviticus 22:13 וְ/זֶרַע֮ conj + n c ms But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
- Leviticus 26:5 זָ֑רַע n c ms Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
- Leviticus 26:16 זַרְעֲ/כֶ֔ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
- Leviticus 27:16 זַרְע֑/וֹ זֶ֚רַע n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
- Leviticus 27:30 מִ/זֶּ֤רַע prep + n c ms cs "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh.
Numbers 9 verses
- Numbers 5:13 זֶרַע֒ n c ms and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;
- Numbers 5:28 זָֽרַע n c ms If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- Numbers 11:7 כִּ/זְרַע prep + n c ms cs The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium.
- Numbers 14:24 וְ/זַרְע֖/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
- Numbers 16:40 מִ/זֶּ֤רַע prep + n c ms cs to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Numbers 18:19 וּ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֥ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
- Numbers 20:5 זֶ֗רַע n c ms Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
- Numbers 24:7 וְ/זַרְע֖/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Water shall flow from his buckets, His seed shall be in many waters, His king shall be higher than Agag, His kingdom shall be exalted.
- Numbers 25:13 וּ/לְ/זַרְע֣/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 14 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:8 וּ/לְ/זַרְעָ֖/ם conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
- Deuteronomy 4:37 בְּ/זַרְע֖/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 10:15 בְּ/זַרְעָ֣/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 11:9 וּ/לְ/זַרְעָ֑/ם conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 11:10 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֔ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Deuteronomy 14:22 זַרְעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.
- Deuteronomy 22:9 הַ/זֶּ֨רַע֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 זֶ֥רַע n c ms You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:46 וּֽ/בְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
- Deuteronomy 28:59 זַרְעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Deuteronomy 30:6 זַרְעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
- Deuteronomy 30:19 וְ/זַרְעֶֽ/ךָ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
- Deuteronomy 31:21 זַרְע֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
- Deuteronomy 34:4 לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.
Joshua 1 verse
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:11 זֶ֣רַע n c ms cs She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
- 1 Samuel 2:20 זֶ֨רַע֙ n c ms Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
- 1 Samuel 8:15 וְ/זַרְעֵי/כֶ֥ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
- 1 Samuel 24:21 זַרְעִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 4:8 וּ/מִ/זַּרְעֽ/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
- 2 Samuel 7:12 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 2 Samuel 22:51 וּ/לְ/זַרְע֖/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Great deliverance gives he to his king, Shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.
1 Kings 4 verses
- 1 Kings 2:33 זַרְע֖/וֹ וּ֠/לְ/זַרְע/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 11:14 מִ/זֶּ֧רַע prep + n c ms cs Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
- 1 Kings 11:39 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.
- 1 Kings 18:32 זֶ֔רַע n c ms With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
2 Kings 4 verses
- 2 Kings 5:27 וּֽ/בְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.
- 2 Kings 11:1 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
- 2 Kings 17:20 זֶ֤רַע n c ms cs Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
- 2 Kings 25:25 מִ/זֶּ֣רַע prep + n c ms cs But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 16:13 זֶ֚רַע n c ms cs You seed of Israel his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- 1 Chronicles 17:11 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 20:7 לְ/זֶ֛רַע prep + n c ms cs Did not you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?
- 2 Chronicles 22:10 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 2:59 וְ/זַרְעָ֔/ם conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp These were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
- Ezra 9:2 זֶ֣רַע n c ms cs For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 7:61 וְ/זַרְעָ֔/ם conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp These were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
- Nehemiah 9:2 זֶ֣רַע n c ms cs The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
- Nehemiah 9:8 לְ/זַרְע֑/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
Esther 5 verses
- Esther 6:13 מִ/זֶּ֣רַע prep + n c ms cs Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.
- Esther 9:27 זַרְעָ֜/ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp the Jews ordained, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing of it, and according to the appointed time of it, every year;
- Esther 9:28 מִ/זַּרְעָֽ/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memory of them perish from their seed.
- Esther 9:31 זַרְעָ֑/ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.
- Esther 10:3 זַרְעֽ/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
Job 3 verses
- Job 5:25 זַרְעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
- Job 21:8 זַרְעָ֤/ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.
- Job 39:12 זַרְעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor?
Psalms 17 verses
- Psalms 18:50 וּ/לְ/זַרְע֗/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He gives great deliverance to his king, And shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.
- Psalms 21:10 וְ֝/זַרְעָ֗/ם conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp You will destroy their descendants from the earth, Their posterity from among the children of men.
- Psalms 22:23 זֶ֣רַע זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs n c ms cs You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
- Psalms 22:30 זֶ֥רַע n c ms Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
- Psalms 25:13 וְ֝/זַרְע֗/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.
- Psalms 37:25 וְ֝/זַרְע֗/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I have been young, and now am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his children begging for bread.
- Psalms 37:26 וְ֝/זַרְע֗/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.
- Psalms 37:28 וְ/זֶ֖רַע conj + n c ms cs For Yahweh loves justice, And doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, But the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Psalms 69:36 וְ/זֶ֣רַע conj + n c ms cs The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
- Psalms 89:4 זַרְעֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms 'I will establish your seed forever, And build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.
- Psalms 89:29 זַרְע֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I will also make his seed endure forever, And his throne as the days of heaven.
- Psalms 89:36 זַ֭רְע/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms His seed will endure forever, His throne like the sun before me.
- Psalms 102:28 וְ֝/זַרְעָ֗/ם conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you."
- Psalms 105:6 זֶ֭רַע n c ms cs You seed of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- Psalms 106:27 זַ֭רְעָ/ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp That he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.
- Psalms 112:2 זַרְע֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
- Psalms 126:6 הַ֫/זָּ֥רַע ptcl def.art + n c ms He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, Will assuredly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Proverbs 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 23 verses
- Isaiah 1:4 זֶ֣רַע n c ms cs Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
- Isaiah 5:10 וְ/זֶ֥רַע conj + n c ms cs For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
- Isaiah 6:13 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs If there are yet a tenth in it, It also shall in turn be eaten up: As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; So the holy seed is its stock."
- Isaiah 14:20 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.
- Isaiah 17:11 זַרְעֵ֣/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
- Isaiah 23:3 זֶ֣רַע n c ms cs On great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of nations.
- Isaiah 30:23 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֜ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;
- Isaiah 41:8 זֶ֖רַע n c ms cs But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
- Isaiah 43:5 זַרְעֶ֔/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Don't be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;
- Isaiah 44:3 זַרְעֶ֔/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
- Isaiah 45:19 לְ/זֶ֥רַע prep + n c ms cs I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- Isaiah 45:25 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
- Isaiah 48:19 זַרְעֶ֔/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
- Isaiah 53:10 זֶ֖רַע n c ms Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
- Isaiah 54:3 וְ/זַרְעֵ/ךְ֙ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
- Isaiah 55:10 זֶ֨רַע֙ n c ms For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
- Isaiah 57:3 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
- Isaiah 57:4 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
- Isaiah 59:21 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֜ זֶ֤רַע זַרְעֲ/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.
- Isaiah 61:9 זַרְעָ֔/ם זֶ֖רַע n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp n c ms Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.
- Isaiah 65:9 זֶ֔רַע n c ms I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
- Isaiah 65:23 זֶ֜רַע n c ms cs They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.
- Isaiah 66:22 זַרְעֲ/כֶ֖ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Jeremiah 18 verses
- Jeremiah 2:21 זֶ֣רַע n c ms cs Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- Jeremiah 7:15 זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
- Jeremiah 22:28 וְ/זַרְע֔/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?
- Jeremiah 22:30 מִ/זַּרְע֗/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
- Jeremiah 23:8 זֶ֨רַע n c ms cs but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.
- Jeremiah 29:32 זַרְע/וֹ֒ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 30:10 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
- Jeremiah 31:27 זֶ֥רַע וְ/זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs conj + n c ms cs Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.
- Jeremiah 31:36 זֶ֨רַע n c ms cs If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
- Jeremiah 31:37 זֶ֧רַע n c ms cs Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 33:22 זֶ֨רַע֙ n c ms cs As the host of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.
- Jeremiah 33:26 זֶ֣רַע מִ/זַּרְע/וֹ֙ זֶ֥רַע n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
- Jeremiah 35:7 וְ/זֶ֤רַע conj + n c ms neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.
- Jeremiah 35:9 וָ/זֶ֖רַע conj + n c ms nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
- Jeremiah 36:31 זַרְע֛/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn't listen.
- Jeremiah 41:1 מִ/זֶּ֣רַע prep + n c ms cs Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
- Jeremiah 46:27 זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
- Jeremiah 49:10 זַרְע֛/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 17:5 מִ/זֶּ֣רַע זָ֑רַע prep + n c ms cs n c ms He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.
- Ezekiel 17:13 מִ/זֶּ֣רַע prep + n c ms cs and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
- Ezekiel 20:5 לְ/זֶ֨רַע֙ prep + n c ms cs and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God;
- Ezekiel 43:19 מִ/זֶּ֨רַע prep + n c ms cs You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin-offering.
- Ezekiel 44:22 מִ/זֶּ֨רַע֙ prep + n c ms cs Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 1:3 וּ/מִ/זֶּ֥רַע conj + prep + n c ms cs The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in [certain] of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles;
- Daniel 9:1 מִ/זֶּ֣רַע prep + n c ms cs In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
Amos 1 verse
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At its core, זרע (zeraʻ) means “seed.” Its English rendering has broadened — “seed” classically, “descendants” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 204 verses in 28 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 1:11. Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “sowing” and “offspring”. Dig into 204-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
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Strong's · 1890
[idiom] carnally
Modern gloss
seed
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H2233 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 204
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 204 distinct verses.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #207
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 207 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 204 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 98 verses · 48%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 67 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 39 verses · 19%
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Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Seed 163×, All the seed 4×, Thee and to thy seed 4×
- American Standard Version: Seed 143×, All the seed 4×, 's seed 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Descendants 76×, Offspring 40×, Seed 32×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Seed 105×, Offspring 48×, Seed of 34×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2233 across 228 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 39 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2233 across 228 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 62 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2233 across 220 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 34 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2233 across 219 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
19 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
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| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 19 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. lit.:
- a. a sowing לְז׳ הַשָּׂדֶה Gn 47:24 (J; + אָכְלְכֶם; otherwise Lv 27:16 b, v. infr. 2 c); לֹא מְקוֹם ז׳ Nu 20:5 no place for sowing (JE; + וּתְאֵנָה וְגֶפֶן וְרִמּוֹן); cf. שְׂדֵה ז׳ Ez 17:5 a field suitable for sowing; hence e.g. Genesis 47:24
- b. sowing as regularly recurring at its season Gn 8:22 (J; ‖ קָצִיר, + קֹר וָחֹם וְקַיִץ וָחֹרֶף וְיוֹם וָלַיְלָה), Lv 26:5 (H; ‖ דַּיִשׁ, בָּצִיר;—cf. Am 9:13 infr. 2 a). e.g. Genesis 8:22
- 2. seed:
- a. lit., sown, to raise crops for food, usually corn (wheat, barley, etc.) Gn 47:19, 23 (J; cf. v 14 f.), Nu 24:7 (JE); נָתַן ז׳ לַזֹּרֵעַ Is 55:10 (‖ לֶחֶם), Dt 28:38 (ז׳ רַב), Lv 26:16 (H; c. זָרַע), 27:16a, ז׳ חֹמֶר שְׂעֹרִים v 16b (both P), cf. Is 5:10. e.g. Genesis 47:19
- b. fig., of idolatry of Judah Is 17:11 (‖ קציר); of fortunes of Zion מֶשֶׁךְ הַזּ׳ ψ 126:6 the dropping of seed, i.e. the proper quantity for sowing (opp. אֲלֻמֹּת); Je 35:7 (c. זָרַע, ‖ כֶּרֶם לֹא תִטָּ֔עוּ), cf. v 9 (‖ כרם, שׂדה); מְטַר ז׳ Is 30:23 (c. זָרַע ‖ לֶחֶם תְּבוּאַת הָאֲדָמָה); also Dt 11:10 (c. זָרַע), Ec 11:6 (c. id.); ז׳ זֵרוּעַ Lv 11:37, cf. v 38 (both P); as yielding the crop תְּבוּאַת זַרְעֶ֑ךָ Dt 14:22 the product of thy seed, cf. d infr.; וְנִגַּשׁ חוֹרֵשׁ בַּקּוֹצֵר וְדֹרֵךְ עֲנָבִים בְּמשֵׁךְ הַזּ׳ Am 9:13, in fig. of rapid and plentiful growth in the coming time; ז׳ הָאָרֶץ producing a vine Ez 17:5, of growth and prosperity of Isr.; הַזּ׳ Mal 2:3, read perhaps הַזְּרֹעַ (cf. VB). e.g. Isaiah 17:11
- c. seed as product; the manna is comp. with ז׳ גַּד, coriander seed in Nu 11:7 (JE), Ex 16:31 (P); seed of herbs and trees Gn 1:11(×2), 12(×2), 29(×2) (all P). Especially e.g. Numbers 11:7
- d. seed as 3, so (although not quite clearly) Dt 22:9 (c. זָרַע; ‖ תְּבוּאַת הַכָּ֑רֶם); pl. 1 S 8:15 (perhaps better arable lands, cf. supr. As zêru; ‖ כרמים), ז׳ הָאָרֶץ Lv 27:30 (‖ פְּרִי־עֵץ; otherwise Gn 47:24, cf. supr. 1 a); ז׳ שִׁחֹר Is 23:3 (‖ קְצִיר יְאוֹר); הַעוֹד הַזּ׳ בַּמְּגוּרָה Hg 2:19 (‖ גֶּפֶן, תְּאֵנָה, רִמּוֹן, עֵץ הַזַּיִת); יָשִׁו֯ב זַרְעֶ֑ךָ וְגָרְנְךָ יֶאֱסֹף Jb 39:12 (of harvest); so perhaps כְּבֵית סָאתַיִם ז׳ 1 K 18:32. e.g. Deuteronomy 22:9
- e. זֶרַע הַשָּׁלוֹם הַגֶּפֶן Zc 8:12, read perhaps הַזּ׳ שׁלוֹם the crop is security (=secure), so 𝔖 Or al.; > Ew Hi al. who transl. ז׳ הַשּׁ׳ the growth of peace, making הַגֶּפֶן appos.—Vbs. used c. ז׳ in these senses are:—usually זָרַע Gn 1:11 Lv 26:16 Je 35:7 +; הִפְרִיחַ Is 17:11; נָתַן בְּ=plant, sow Ez 17:5; נָתַן yield Is 55:10; מָשַׁךְ Am 9:13. e.g. Zechariah 8:12
- 3. seed=semen virile, וְנִזְרְעָה זָ֑רַע Nu 5:28, and she shall be made pregnant with seed; usually שִׁכְבַת־ז׳, flow of semen Lv 22:4 (H), Lv 15:16, 32 (P; all c. תֵּצֵא) 15:17 (P; c. הָיָה); as acc. modi שׁכב את־אִשָּׁה שׁ׳ ז׳ Lv 19:20 (H), 15:18 Nu 5:13 (both P); so also נתן שְׁכָבְתּוֹ לְזרע Lv 18:20 (לְ genitiv.); cf. ז׳ אָדָם וז׳ בְּהֵמָה Je 31:27 (as 2nd acc. after זָרַע q.v. 3 b). e.g. Numbers 5:28
- 4. seed = off spring:
- a. rarely of animals, coll. Gn 3:15; 7:3 (both J). Usually e.g. Genesis 3:15
- b. of mankind, coll. =descendants, posterity; seed of the woman Gn 3:15 (J); seed of the patriarchs (especially Abr.) 12:17; 13:15, 16(×2); 16:10; 22:17(×2), 18; 24:7; 26:3, 4(×3), 24; 28:13, 14(×2); 32:13 (all J), 15:13, 18 Ex 32:13(×2); 33:1 (all JE), Gn 21:12 Jos 24:3 (both E; in both promised seed of Abr. restricted to line of Isaac), Dt 11:9; 34:4 Ne 9:8; = a son as involving posterity Gn 15:3, 5 (JE) cf. infr.; phr. זַרְעָם אַחֲרֵיהֶם Dt 1:8, cf. 4:37; 10:15, so P, Gn 17:7(×2), 8, 9, 10, 19; 35:12; 48:4; זַרְעֲךָ אִתָּךְ Gn 28:4 (P; cf. Nu 18:19); v. also infr. c. e.g. Genesis 3:15
- c. seed(= posterity) of other individuals Gn 21:13 (E; of Ishmael) 24:60; 48:19 (both J), Nu 14:24 (JE), Lv 21:21; 22:3, 4 (all H), Nu 17:5 (P), 1 S 20:42(×2) 24:22 2 S 4:8 1 K 2:33(×2) 11:39 2 K 5:27 Je 29:32 Ez 43:19 Jb 5:25 (‖ צֶאֱצָאֶיךָ), 21:8 (‖ id.); especially of seed of David as anointed to reign ψ 18:51 = 2 S 22:51 (‖ לִמְשִׁיחוֹ), as sitting on throne Je 33:21, cf. v 22, 26, ψ 89:5, 30, 37; of Jehoiachin Je 22:28, 30, Jehoiakim 36:31 (cf. v 30); of child (son) as involving posterity Gn 38:8, 9(×2) (of Er’s seed by Onan), 48:11 (all J), cf. 19:32, 34 (J), 2 S 7:12 Ru 4:12 Lv 21:15 (H); phr. זַרְעָם אַחֲרֵיהֶם of seed of Noah and his sons Gn 9:9; of Aaron Ex 28:43; of Phinehas Nu 25:13 (all P); of David 1 Ch 17:11; לְזַרְעוֹ לְדֹרֹתָם Ex 30:21 (P), cf. Lv 21:17 (H; both of Aaron), v. also b supr. ז׳, of seed of righteous, especially ψψ:—ψ 25:13; 37:25, 26; 69:37; 102:29 (‖ בָּנִים), 112:2 (‖ דּוֹר ישׁרים), cf. 22:31 (on text v. Che); of wicked ψ 21:11; 37:28. e.g. Genesis 21:13
- d. specif. of a particular child (son) ז׳ אַחֵר Gn 4:25 (J); ז׳ אֲנָשִׁים 1 S 1:11; of children Lv 18:21; 20:2, 3, 4; 22:13 (all H), 1 S 2:20 (cf. בָּנִים, בָּנוֹת v 21); children and grandchildren Gn 46:6, 7 (P). e.g. Genesis 4:25
- e. = family Gn 17:12 (P; cf. Assyrian zêr bit abišu Asrb.Annals iii. 10); note especially of royal family ז׳ הַמֶּלֶךְ 1 K 11:14; ז׳ הַמַּמְלָכָה 2 K 11:1 = 2 Ch 22:10; ז׳ הַמְּלוּכָה 2 K 25:25 = Je 41:1, Ez 17:13 Dn 1:3; = pedigree בית אבותם וְזַרְעָם Ezr 2:59 = Ne 7:61; = one’s nation, as of same blood Est 10:3 (‖ עַם).—Some vbs. used c. ז׳ in these senses are:—נָתַן, God subj. Gn 15:3 Ru 4:12 (sq. מִן of woman); שִׂים 1 S 2:20; c. man as subj. נתן Gn 38:9; הֵקִים v 8; חִיָּה ז׳, keep alive, or give life to, of animals Gn 7:3; of woman 19:32, 34 (sq. מִן of man). e.g. Genesis 17:12
- f. especially as name for people of Isr., seed of Abr. Is 41:8 2 Ch 20:7 (‖ עַמְּךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל), Je 33:26 ψ 105:6 (‖ בְּנֵי יעקב); of Isr. or Jacob 2 K 17:20 Ne 9:2 (‖ בני ישׂראל v 1), Is 43:5; 45:19, 25 Je 31:36, 37; 33:26 ψ 22:24(×2) 1 Ch 16:13 (‖ בני יעקב); so ז׳ בֵּית ישׂראל Je 23:8 Ez 44:22 (𝔖 𝔊 codd. Co del. בית); ז׳ בית יעקב Ez 20:5; in Est. ז׳ הַיְהוּדִים Est 6:13; so of Edom (seed of Esau) Je 49:10, cf. מִזֶּרע מָדַי Dn 9:1. e.g. Isaiah 41:8
- g. seed of Isr. (or Jacob, or the people), is used also, by (later) prophets, of future generations, in addressing the people:—Dt 28:46, 59; 30:6, 19; 31:21, cf. Nu 18:19 (P; לְזַרְעֲךָ אִתָּ֑ךְ, ‖ וּלְבָנֶיךָ וְלִבְנוֹתֶיךָ), Je 30:10 = 46:27 (Jacob and Isr. here = people), ψ 106:27; ‖ צֶאֱצָא(יך) Is 44:3 (Jacob and Jeshurun), 48:19, cf. 61:9; also Je 7:15 Is 54:3; 66:22 (‖ שִׁמְכֶם); מִפִּי וַרְעֲךָ וּמִפִּי זֶרַע זַרְעֲךָ Is 59:21; of Jews (יהודים) Est 9:27, 28, 31. e.g. Deuteronomy 28:46
- 5. seed as marked by moral quality = persons (or community) of such a quality; transition to this through such cases as those of ז׳ בְּרוּכֵי י׳ Is 65:23 (‖ צֶאֱצָאִים), cf. 61:9; 65:9; ז׳ הַקֹּדֶשׁ Ezr 9:2 (of Isr.),0 cf. Is 53:10; note, in good sense ז׳ צַדִּיקִים Pr 11:21 (opp. רַע); ז׳ אֱמֶת Je 2:21 (‖ שׂוֹרֵק); ז׳ אלהים Mal 2:15;—ז׳ קֹדֶשׁ Is 6:13 is a gloss;—in bad sense ז׳ מְרֵעִים Is 1:4 2 (‖ גּוֹי־חֹטֵא, עַם כֶּבֶד עָוֹן, בָּנִים מַשְׁחִיתִים), 14:20; ז׳ מְנָאֵף 57:3 (‖ בני עֹנֲנָה); ז׳־שָׁ֑קֶר v 4 (‖ יִלְדֵי־פֶשַׁע). e.g. Isaiah 65:23
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Word origin
n.m. Dt. 28:38 sowing, seed, offspring (NH id., Aramaic זְרַע, ܙܪܰܥ; Ph. זרע; Zinj. id.; Arabic زَرْعٌ 2 Ethiopic ዘርእ; Assyrian zêru, cultivated land, BelserBAS ii. 130, cf. Arabic زَرْعَةٌ )—abs. ז׳ Gn 47:23 +; זָ֑רַע Gn 1:29 +; cstr. זֶרַע Is 5:10 +; זְרַע־ Nu 11:7; sf. זַרְעִי 1 S 20:42; 24:22; זַרְעֲךָ Dt 11:10 +; זַרְעֶ֑ךָ Ec 11:6 +, etc.; pl. sf. זַרְעֵיכֶם 1 S 8:15;—
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Derived from זרע (zâraʻ) (H2232) — to sow.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זָרַע
- to strew, sow. Kil. I, 9. Ib. II, 3 אֶזְרַע, v. אָפַךְ; a. fr.—Part. pass. זָרוּעַ, f. זְרוּעָה; pl. זְרוּעִים &c. Ib. ז׳ חטים sown with wheat; a. fr.—Y. Sot. I, 17ᵇ top כשם … בנותיהן זרועות וכ׳ as well as their vineyards are sown with mixed seeds, so are their daughters &c. (faithless wives).
- to be sown, to be stocked with seed. Gen. R. s. 83, end, a. e. בשבילי נִזְרְעָה וכ׳ the field has been sown for my sake. Shebi. IV, 2 תִּזָרֵעַ may be sown; a. fr.
- to emit semen(also used of women emitting a secretion at coition). Ber. 60ᵃ, a. e. איש מַזְרִיעַ תחלה when the male is the first to emit semen; אשה מַזְרַעַת וכ׳ when the female is the first &c.; a. fr.
זְרַע I
- Targ. Jud. VI, 3; a. fr.—Part. זָרֵעַ, (זְרִיעַ) זָרֵיעַ. Targ. Prov. XI, 18; a. fr.—Targ. Is. XXVIII, 25 זָרְעֵי. Ib. XXXII, 20 זָרְעִין.—R. Hash. 16ᵃ לִיזְרַע חרפא let him sow early seed (barley &c.). Y. Peah VII, 20ᵇ top הוה ז׳ חקלא וכ׳ planted carrots on his field; a. fr.
- as preced. Nif. Targ. O. Deut. XXIX, 22; a. e.—Y. Peah l. c. אִזְדַּרְעוּן they have been planted.
- as preced. Hif. Y. Kil. I, 27ᵃ bot. ומַזְרְעִין and they copulated.
זֶרַע
- preced.) seed; animalic semen (mostly שִׁכְבַת ז׳). Gen. R. s. 73 נעשו המים ז׳ וכ׳ the water in their bellies turned into semen. Y. Kil. I, 27ᵃ bot. נוטל הימנו ז׳ he may take seed thereof. Shebi. II, 8 שזרעו לז׳ which he planted for the sake of obtaining seed, opp. לירק for using it as vegetable; a. fr.—Trnsf. issue, descent. Gen. R. s. 23; s. 51 אותו ז׳ שהוא וכ׳ that issue which was to come from a foreign place (Moab). Ber. 31ᵇ ז׳ שמושח וכ׳ a descendant who will anoint two men; a. fr.—Pl. זְרָעִים. Peah II, 3 הכל מפסיק לז׳ all of them form a partition with regard to seeds (making each field separately subject to Peah), opp. to trees. Kil. III, 2 כל מין ז׳ all kinds of seeds (small vegetable), opp. ירקות large beans &c.; a. fr.—Y. Shebi. II, 34ᵃ top ששה זְרָעִין six sowing seasons during a Sabbatical period.—סֶרֶר ז׳ or ז׳ Order of Seeds, Z’raim, the first of the six orders of the Mishnah a. Tosefta. Sabb. 31ᵃ. Esth. R. to I, 2.
זְרַע II
- Targ. O. Gen. I, 11; a. fr. בר ז׳ that which is fit for propagation, seed-capsule, v. בִּיזְרָא. Targ. Prov. XI, 21; a. fr.—Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 26 Ms. (ed. דרעיה, v. דְּרַע II).—Y. Snh. VII, end, 25ᵈ ז׳ דכיתן flax-seed.
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Forms in the corpus
The 117 distinct written forms H2233 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 57 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 183 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 204 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:11
- Exodus 16:31
- Leviticus 11:37
- Numbers 5:13
- Deuteronomy 1:8
- Joshua 24:3
- Ruth 4:12
- 1 Samuel 1:11
- 2 Samuel 4:8
- 1 Kings 2:33
- 2 Kings 5:27
- 1 Chronicles 16:13
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
