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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:

Jeremiah 29:32: "I will punish Shemaiah and his seed: he shall not have a man"
Jeremiah 30:10: "lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity;"
Jeremiah 31:27: "of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast."
Jeremiah 31:27: "of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast."
Jeremiah 31:36: "from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease"
Jeremiah 31:37: "I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all"
Jeremiah 33:22: "so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto"
Jeremiah 33:26: "Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take"
Jeremiah 33:26: "and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over"
Jeremiah 33:26: "so that I will not take to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac,"
Jeremiah 35:7: "house, nor sow seed, nor vineyard, nor"
Jeremiah 35:9: "have we vineyard, nor seed:"
Jeremiah 36:31: "And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon"
Jeremiah 41:1: "of Nethaniah the son of the seed of the seed royal, and the princes of the king,"
Jeremiah 46:27: "behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity;"
Jeremiah 49:10: "and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he is not."
Ezekiel 17:5: "He took also of the seed also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed"
Ezekiel 17:5: "also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed"
Ezekiel 17:13: "And hath taken of the king's seed, seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken"
Ezekiel 20:5: "Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land"
Ezekiel 43:19: "the priests the Levites that be of the seed be of the seed of Zadok, unto"
Ezekiel 44:22: "but they shall take of the seed of the seed of the house of Israel,"
Daniel 1:3: "that he should bring certain of the children and of the king's seed, and of the king's seed, and of"
Daniel 9:1: "of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the seed of the Medes, was made king"
Amos 9:13: "and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all"
Haggai 2:19: " Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate,"
Zechariah 8:12: "For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground"
Malachi 2:3: "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon"
Malachi 2:15: "one? a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously"









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