H2233: זֶרַע
zeraʻ · pronounced zeh'-rah · “seed”
Definition
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV translates it as: [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
Word origin: from H2232 (זָרַע);
Extended definition
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)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2233 is translated
- your ×70
- the offspring of ×35
- his ×32
- seed ×28
- offspring ×14
- their ×13
- the seed of ×7
- its ×6
- spring ×4
- seed of ×4
- spring of ×2
- my ×2
Bible verses with H2233 (zeraʻ)
Zeraʻ appears in 205 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Genesis 9:9
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
- 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.
- Genesis 13:15
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
- 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.
- Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
- 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.
- 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;
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Genesis 17:9
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
- 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.
- Genesis 17:12
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
- Genesis 17:19
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
- Genesis 19:32
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- Genesis 19:34
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- Genesis 21:12
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
All 205 references
- Genesis 21:13
- Genesis 22:17
- Genesis 22:18
- Genesis 24:7
- Genesis 24:60
- Genesis 26:3
- Genesis 26:4
- Genesis 26:24
- Genesis 28:4
- Genesis 28:13
- Genesis 28:14
- Genesis 32:12
- Genesis 35:12
- Genesis 38:8
- Genesis 38:9
- Genesis 46:6
- Genesis 46:7
- Genesis 47:19
- Genesis 47:23
- Genesis 47:24
- Genesis 48:4
- Genesis 48:11
- Genesis 48:19
- Exodus 16:31
- Exodus 28:43
- Exodus 30:21
- Exodus 32:13
- Exodus 33:1
- Leviticus 11:37
- Leviticus 11:38
- Leviticus 15:16
- Leviticus 15:17
- Leviticus 15:18
- Leviticus 15:32
- Leviticus 18:20
- Leviticus 18:21
- Leviticus 19:20
- Leviticus 20:2
- Leviticus 20:3
- Leviticus 20:4
- Leviticus 21:15
- Leviticus 21:17
- Leviticus 21:21
- Leviticus 22:3
- Leviticus 22:4
- Leviticus 22:13
- Leviticus 26:5
- Leviticus 26:16
- Leviticus 27:16
- Leviticus 27:30
- Numbers 5:13
- Numbers 5:28
- Numbers 11:7
- Numbers 14:24
- Numbers 16:40
- Numbers 18:19
- Numbers 20:5
- Numbers 24:7
- Numbers 25:13
- Deuteronomy 1:8
- Deuteronomy 4:37
- Deuteronomy 10:15
- Deuteronomy 11:9
- Deuteronomy 11:10
- Deuteronomy 14:22
- Deuteronomy 22:9
- Deuteronomy 28:38
- Deuteronomy 28:46
- Deuteronomy 28:59
- Deuteronomy 30:6
- Deuteronomy 30:19
- Deuteronomy 31:21
- Deuteronomy 34:4
- Joshua 24:3
- Ruth 4:12
- 1 Samuel 1:11
- 1 Samuel 2:20
- 1 Samuel 8:15
- 1 Samuel 20:42
- 1 Samuel 24:21
- 2 Samuel 4:8
- 2 Samuel 7:12
- 2 Samuel 22:51
- 1 Kings 2:33
- 1 Kings 11:14
- 1 Kings 11:39
- 1 Kings 18:32
- 2 Kings 5:27
- 2 Kings 11:1
- 2 Kings 17:20
- 2 Kings 25:25
- 1 Chronicles 16:13
- 1 Chronicles 17:11
- 2 Chronicles 20:7
- 2 Chronicles 22:10
- Ezra 2:59
- Ezra 9:2
- Nehemiah 7:61
- Nehemiah 9:2
- Nehemiah 9:8
- Esther 6:13
- Esther 9:27
- Esther 9:28
- Esther 9:31
- Esther 10:3
- Job 5:25
- Job 21:8
- Job 39:12
- Psalms 18:50
- Psalms 21:10
- Psalms 22:23
- Psalms 22:30
- Psalms 25:13
- Psalms 37:25
- Psalms 37:26
- Psalms 37:28
- Psalms 69:36
- Psalms 89:4
- Psalms 89:29
- Psalms 89:36
- Psalms 102:28
- Psalms 105:6
- Psalms 106:27
- Psalms 112:2
- Psalms 126:6
- Proverbs 11:21
- Ecclesiastes 11:6
- Isaiah 1:4
- Isaiah 5:10
- Isaiah 6:13
- Isaiah 14:20
- Isaiah 17:11
- Isaiah 23:3
- Isaiah 30:23
- Isaiah 41:8
- Isaiah 43:5
- Isaiah 44:3
- Isaiah 45:19
- Isaiah 45:25
- Isaiah 48:19
- Isaiah 53:10
- Isaiah 54:3
- Isaiah 55:10
- Isaiah 57:3
- Isaiah 57:4
- Isaiah 59:21
- Isaiah 61:9
- Isaiah 65:9
- Isaiah 65:23
- Isaiah 66:22
- Jeremiah 2:21
- Jeremiah 7:15
- Jeremiah 22:28
- Jeremiah 22:30
- Jeremiah 23:8
- Jeremiah 29:32
- Jeremiah 30:10
- Jeremiah 31:27
- Jeremiah 31:36
- Jeremiah 31:37
- Jeremiah 33:22
- Jeremiah 33:26
- Jeremiah 35:7
- Jeremiah 35:9
- Jeremiah 36:31
- Jeremiah 41:1
- Jeremiah 46:27
- Jeremiah 49:10
- Ezekiel 17:5
- Ezekiel 17:13
- Ezekiel 20:5
- Ezekiel 43:19
- Ezekiel 44:22
- Daniel 1:3
- Daniel 9:1
- Amos 9:13
- Haggai 2:19
- Zechariah 8:12
- Malachi 2:3
- Malachi 2:15