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:
Hosea 8:7: "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no the bud"
Hosea 10:12: " Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up for it is time"
Micah 6:15: "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread but thou shalt not"
Nahum 1:14: "thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods"
Haggai 1:6: " Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough;"
Zechariah 10:9: " And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with and turn again."
