H2232: זָרַע
zâraʻ · pronounced zaw-rah' · “to sow”
Definition
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
KJV translates it as: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to sow
1a2) producing, yielding seed
1b)(Niphal)
1b1) to be sown
1b2) to become pregnant, be made pregnant
1c) (Pual) to be sown
1d) (Hiphil) to produce seed, yield seed
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2232 is translated
- you will sow ×13
- sow ×5
- which bears seed ×4
- it will be sown ×2
- it is sown ×2
- it ×2
- one who sows ×2
- he sowed ×1
- she will bear a child ×1
- we will sow ×1
- she will be impregnated ×1
- you sowed ×1
Bible verses with H2232 (zâraʻ)
Zâraʻ appears in 54 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Genesis 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
- 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.
- Exodus 23:10
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
- Exodus 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
- Leviticus 11:37
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
- Leviticus 12:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
- Leviticus 19:19
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
- Leviticus 25:3
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
- Leviticus 25:4
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
- Leviticus 25:11
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
- Leviticus 25:20
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
- Leviticus 25:22
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
- 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.
- Numbers 5:28
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- 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:
- Deuteronomy 21:4
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- Judges 6:3
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
- Judges 9:45
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
- 2 Kings 19:29
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
- Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
All 54 references
- Job 31:8
- Psalms 97:11
- Psalms 107:37
- Psalms 126:5
- Proverbs 11:18
- Proverbs 22:8
- Ecclesiastes 11:4
- Ecclesiastes 11:6
- Isaiah 17:10
- Isaiah 28:24
- Isaiah 30:23
- Isaiah 32:20
- Isaiah 37:30
- Isaiah 40:24
- Isaiah 55:10
- Jeremiah 2:2
- Jeremiah 4:3
- Jeremiah 12:13
- Jeremiah 31:27
- Jeremiah 35:7
- Jeremiah 50:16
- Ezekiel 36:9
- Hosea 2:23
- Hosea 8:7
- Hosea 10:12
- Micah 6:15
- Nahum 1:14
- Haggai 1:6
- Zechariah 10:9