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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 38:9: "it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother."
Genesis 46:6: "into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with"
Genesis 46:7: "and his sons' daughters, his seed brought he with him into Egypt."
Genesis 47:19: "servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land"
Genesis 47:23: "for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land."
Genesis 47:24: "and four parts your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households,"
Genesis 48:4: "this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession."
Genesis 48:11: "hath showed me also thy seed."
Genesis 48:19: "brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations."
Exodus 16:31: "thereof Manna: and it seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey."
Exodus 28:43: "and die: it shall be a statute forever unto him and his seed after"
Exodus 30:21: "and it shall be a statute to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations."
Exodus 32:13: "unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this"
Exodus 32:13: "that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever."
Exodus 33:1: "I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give"
Leviticus 11:37: "upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean."
Leviticus 11:38: "any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcass fall"
Leviticus 15:16: "And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash"
Leviticus 15:17: "skin, whereon is the seed shall be washed with water,"
Leviticus 15:18: "also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe"
Leviticus 15:32: "is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed seed goeth from"
Leviticus 18:20: "Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile"
Leviticus 18:21: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane"
Leviticus 19:20: "And whosoever lieth carnally carnally with a woman, that"
Leviticus 20:2: "the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed any of his seed unto Molech;"
Leviticus 20:3: "his people; because he hath given of his seed of his seed unto Molech,"
Leviticus 20:4: "their eyes from the man, of his seed of his seed"
Leviticus 21:15: "Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD"
Leviticus 21:17: "Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed he be of thy seed in their generations"
Leviticus 21:21: "No man that hath a blemish of the seed of the seed of Aaron the priest"
Leviticus 22:3: "unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that"
Leviticus 22:4: "What man soever of the seed of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue;"
Leviticus 22:4: "any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed seed"
Leviticus 22:13: "a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house,"
Leviticus 26:5: "and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell"
Leviticus 26:16: "and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat"
Leviticus 27:16: "of his possession, then thy estimation according to the seed thereof: a homer of barley seed"
Leviticus 27:16: "according to the seed thereof: a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver."
Leviticus 27:30: "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit"
Numbers 5:13: "And a man lie with her carnally, her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes"
Numbers 5:28: "but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed."
Numbers 11:7: "And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bedellium."
Numbers 14:24: "into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess"
Numbers 16:40: "no stranger, which of the seed of the seed of Aaron,"
Numbers 18:19: "forever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with"
Numbers 20:5: "this evil it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines,"
Numbers 24:7: "He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king"
Numbers 25:13: "And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because"
Deuteronomy 1:8: "Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after"
Deuteronomy 4:37: "he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after in his sight"









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