Strong's #2233: zera` (pronounced zeh'-rah)
from 2232; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity:--X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
zera‛
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 (figuratively)
1f) sowing time (by metonymy)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2232
Usage:
This word is used 229 times:
Genesis 1:11: "grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit"
Genesis 1:11: "fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."
Genesis 1:12: "grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, yielding fruit,"
Genesis 1:12: "yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that"
Genesis 1:29: "every herb seed, which is upon the face of all"
Genesis 1:29: "is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
Genesis 3:15: "between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; shall bruise thy head,"
Genesis 3:15: "thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; shall bruise thy head, and thou"
Genesis 4:25: "God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."
Genesis 7:3: "of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed upon"
Genesis 8:22: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat,"
Genesis 9:9: "my covenant with you, and with your seed after"
Genesis 12:7: "unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:"
Genesis 13:15: "thou seest, it, and to thy seed forever."
Genesis 13:16: "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if"
Genesis 13:16: "the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered."
Genesis 15:3: "Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, in my house is mine heir."
Genesis 15:5: "thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be."
Genesis 15:13: "unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger"
Genesis 15:18: "with Abram, Unto thy seed have I given this land,"
Genesis 16:10: "And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not"
Genesis 17:7: "my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations covenant,"
Genesis 17:7: "covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after"
Genesis 17:8: "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger,"
Genesis 17:9: "therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations."
Genesis 17:10: "which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after man child among you shall be circumcised."
Genesis 17:12: "of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. of thy seed."
Genesis 17:19: "with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after"
Genesis 19:32: "and we will lie with seed of our father."
Genesis 19:34: "and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."
Genesis 21:12: "unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called."
Genesis 21:13: "a nation, because is thy seed."
Genesis 22:17: "thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed of the heaven, and as the sand which"
Genesis 22:17: "is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;"
Genesis 22:18: " And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed"
Genesis 24:7: "and which spoke unto me, and that swore unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give"
Genesis 24:60: "be of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate"
Genesis 26:3: "with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these"
Genesis 26:4: "And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed"
Genesis 26:4: "as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries;"
Genesis 26:4: "all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;"
Genesis 26:24: "thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's"
Genesis 28:4: "thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land"
Genesis 28:13: "whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;"
Genesis 28:14: " And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east,"
Genesis 28:14: "and to the east, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
Genesis 32:12: "I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand"
Genesis 35:12: "Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed thee will I give the land."
Genesis 38:8: "wife, her, and raise up seed to thy brother."
Genesis 38:9: "And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass,"
