Strong H22333 sensesזֶ֫רַע

seed: children · seed · seed: semen

Transliteration
zera‛
Pronunciation
zeh'-rah

The 3 senses of Strong H2233

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2233 appears in 205 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. seed: childrenH2233H: children/descendants160 verses · 24 books
  2. seedH2233G: seed/sowing38 verses · 16 books
  3. seed: semenH2233I: semen8 verses · Leviticus, Numbers

General definition

From H2232; seed; figuratively {fruit} plant 6
sowing {time} posterity: - X {carnally} {child} {fruitful} seed ({-time}) sowing-time.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • seed196
  • carnally3
  • child2
  • let2
  • fruitful1
  • seedtime1
  • time1

First verses

  1. Genesis 1:11
    And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
  2. Genesis 1:12
    And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
  3. Genesis 1:29
    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
  4. Genesis 3:15
    And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
  5. Genesis 4:25
    And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
  6. Genesis 7:3
    Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
  7. Genesis 8:22
    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  8. Genesis 9:9
    And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
  9. Genesis 12:7
    And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
  10. Genesis 13:15
    For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
  11. Genesis 13:16
    And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
  12. Genesis 15:3
    And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
  13. Genesis 15:5
    And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
  14. Genesis 15:13
    And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
  15. Genesis 15:18
    In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
  16. Genesis 16:10
    And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
  17. Genesis 17:7
    And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
  18. Genesis 17:8
    And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  19. Genesis 17:9
    And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
  20. Genesis 17:10
    This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.