Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2233
זֶ֫רַע
ze.ra · “seed”
Used 229 times across 28 books
Definition
: seed/sowing
1) seed, sowing, offspring
1a) a sowing
1b) seed
1c) semen virile
1d) offspring, descendants, posterity, children
1e) of moral quality
1e1) a practitioner of righteousness (fig.)
1f) sowing time (by meton)
1) seed, sowing, offspring
1a) a sowing
1b) seed
1c) semen virile
1d) offspring, descendants, posterity, children
1e) of moral quality
1e1) a practitioner of righteousness (fig.)
1f) sowing time (by meton)
Where it appears
Genesis59
Exodus6
Leviticus24
Numbers9
Deuteronomy14
Joshua1
Ruth1
1 Samuel6
2 Samuel3
1 Kings5
2 Kings4
1 Chronicles2
2 Chronicles2
Ezra2
Nehemiah3
Esther5
Job3
Psalms18
Proverbs1
Ecclesiastes1
Isaiah26
Jeremiah21
Ezekiel6
Daniel2
Amos1
Haggai1
Zechariah1
Malachi2
In the text
Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.Genesis 1:12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.Genesis 1:29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.Genesis 4:25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.Genesis 7:3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Genesis 9:9And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;Genesis 12:7And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.Genesis 13:15For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
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