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:
Deuteronomy 10:15: "in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed them, even you above all people,"
Deuteronomy 11:9: "unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey."
Deuteronomy 11:10: "from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst"
Deuteronomy 14:22: "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth"
Deuteronomy 22:9: "with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard,"
Deuteronomy 28:38: "Thou shalt carry much seed out Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust"
Deuteronomy 28:46: "And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever."
Deuteronomy 28:59: "thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great and of long continuance, and sore"
Deuteronomy 30:6: "thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 30:19: "life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Deuteronomy 31:21: "it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know"
Deuteronomy 34:4: "and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over"
Joshua 24:3: "the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac."
Ruth 4:12: "bore of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of"
1 Samuel 1:11: "thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all"
1 Samuel 2:20: "and said, The LORD thee seed of this woman for"
1 Samuel 8:15: "And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants."
1 Samuel 20:42: "be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed forever. And he arose"
1 Samuel 20:42: "between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed forever. And he arose and departed:"
1 Samuel 24:21: "that thou wilt not cut off my seed me, and that thou wilt not destroy"
2 Samuel 4:8: "the king this day of Saul, and of his seed. and of his seed."
2 Samuel 7:12: "thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels,"
2 Samuel 22:51: "mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed forevermore."
1 Kings 2:33: "upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed forever: and upon his seed, and upon his house,"
1 Kings 2:33: "of his seed forever: and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace"
1 Kings 11:14: "Hadad the Edomite: was of the king's seed was of the king's seed in Edom."
1 Kings 11:39: "this afflict the seed of David, but forever."
1 Kings 18:32: "the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed."
2 Kings 5:27: "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence"
2 Kings 11:1: "and destroyed all the seed royal."
2 Kings 17:20: "And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered"
2 Kings 25:25: "of Nethaniah, the son of the seed of the seed royal, came, and ten"
1 Chronicles 16:13: " O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones."
1 Chronicles 17:11: "thy fathers, thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons;"
2 Chronicles 20:7: "before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever?"
2 Chronicles 22:10: "and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah."
Ezra 2:59: "not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:"
Ezra 9:2: "of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves of those lands:"
Nehemiah 7:61: "not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel."
Nehemiah 9:2: " And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood"
Nehemiah 9:8: "and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for"
Esther 6:13: "his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed be of the seed of the Jews, before whom"
Esther 9:27: "and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon such as joined themselves unto"
Esther 9:28: "should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish"
Esther 9:31: "they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry."
Esther 10:3: "and speaking peace to all his seed."
Job 5:25: "Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth."
Job 21:8: " Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes."
Job 39:12: "Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?"
Psalms 18:50: "mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed forevermore."
