Strong H2233H2233Gזֶ֫רַע

seed

One of the 3 senses of Strong H2233

Transliteration
zera‛
Pronunciation
zeh'-rah
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

: seed/sowing
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 (fig.)
1f) sowing time (by meton)

General definition

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

In the Bible

Strong H2233G appears in 38 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • seed36
  • 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 8:22
    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  5. Genesis 47:19
    Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
  6. Genesis 47:23
    Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
  7. Genesis 47:24
    And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
  8. Exodus 16:31
    And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
  9. Leviticus 11:37
    And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
  10. Leviticus 11:38
    But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
  11. Leviticus 26:5
    And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
  12. Leviticus 26:16
    I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
  13. Leviticus 27:16
    And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
  14. Leviticus 27:30
    And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.
  15. Numbers 11:7
    And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
  16. Numbers 20:5
    And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
  17. Deuteronomy 11:10
    For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
  18. Deuteronomy 14:22
    Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
  19. Deuteronomy 22:9
    Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
  20. Deuteronomy 28:38
    Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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