Strong's #2232: zara` (pronounced zaw-rah')
a primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify:--bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
zâra‛
1) to sow, scatter seed
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to sow
1a2) producing, yielding seed
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be sown
1b2) to become pregnant, be made pregnant
1c) (Pual) to be sown
1d) (Hiphil) to produce seed, yield seed
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 56 times:
Genesis 1:11: "bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding"
Genesis 1:12: "brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed and the tree yielding"
Genesis 1:29: "you every bearing seed, which is upon the face"
Genesis 1:29: "in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
Genesis 26:12: "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same a hundredfold:"
Genesis 47:23: "for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land."
Exodus 23:10: "And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits"
Exodus 23:16: "the firstfruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end"
Leviticus 11:37: "seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean."
Leviticus 12:2: "saying, If have conceived seed, and borne a man child: then she shall be unclean seven"
Leviticus 19:19: "engender thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment"
Leviticus 25:3: "Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thy vineyard,"
Leviticus 25:4: "for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard."
Leviticus 25:11: "year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself"
Leviticus 25:20: "year? we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:"
Leviticus 25:22: " And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of fruit"
Leviticus 26:16: "the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat"
Numbers 5:28: "defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed."
Deuteronomy 11:10: "of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst"
Deuteronomy 21:4: "is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck"
Deuteronomy 22:9: "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit which"
Deuteronomy 22:9: "the fruit which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled."
Deuteronomy 29:23: "and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any"
Judges 6:3: "And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the children"
Judges 9:45: "was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt."
2 Kings 19:29: "that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat"
Job 4:8: "I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness,"
Job 31:8: " Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out."
Psalms 97:11: "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart."
Psalms 107:37: " And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits"
Psalms 126:5: " They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."
Proverbs 11:18: "worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness reward."
Proverbs 22:8: " He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger"
Ecclesiastes 11:4: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds reap."
Ecclesiastes 11:6: "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold thine hand:"
Isaiah 17:10: "therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:"
Isaiah 28:24: "plow all day to sow? doth he open of his ground?"
Isaiah 30:23: "the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow withal; and bread of the increase"
Isaiah 32:20: "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth of the ox"
Isaiah 37:30: "that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat"
Isaiah 40:24: "be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: their stock shall not take root"
Isaiah 55:10: "and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:"
Jeremiah 2:2: "me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown."
Jeremiah 4:3: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns."
Jeremiah 12:13: " They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not and they shall be ashamed"
Jeremiah 31:27: "come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house"
Jeremiah 35:7: "shall ye build house, nor sow seed, plant vineyard,"
Jeremiah 50:16: "Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time"
Ezekiel 36:9: "you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:"
Hosea 2:23: " And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; to them which were not"
