זֶ֫רַע (ze.ra) means “seed” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: zeh'-rah Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
זֶ֫רַע · ze.ra · seed
: 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)
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זֶ֫רַע · ze.ra · seed: children
: children/descendants 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)
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זֶ֫רַע · ze.ra · seed: semen
: semen 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)
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from H2232 (זָרַע); seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV glosses: [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| seed | 14 |
| your descendants | 13 |
| your offspring | 9 |
| and his descendants | 8 |
| descendants | 8 |
| and your descendants | 7 |
| offspring | 7 |
| the descendants | 7 |
| his offspring | 6 |
| his descendants | 5 |
| of semen | 5 |
| and their descendants | 4 |
| and your offspring | 4 |
| family | 4 |
| of seed | 4 |
| their descendants | 4 |
| to your descendants | 4 |
| your seed | 4 |
| children | 3 |
| line | 3 |
| the offspring | 3 |
| to the descendants | 3 |
| and his offspring | 2 |
| and through your offspring | 2 |
| but the offspring | 2 |
| descendant | 2 |
| heirs | 2 |
| i will make your descendants | 2 |
| o offspring | 2 |
| of their descendants | 2 |
| of your descendants | 2 |
| the seed | 2 |
| their offspring | 2 |
| to your offspring | 2 |
| were descended | 2 |
| with seed | 2 |
| your descendant | 2 |
| a brood | 1 |
| a descendant | 1 |
| a son | 1 |
| after you | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and her seed | 1 |
| and his seed | 1 |
| and the god of your descendants | 1 |
| and their children | 1 |
| and their offspring | 1 |
| and to their descendants | 1 |
| any of his children | 1 |
| any of your children | 1 |
| are a people | 1 |
| as seed | 1 |
| both the crop | 1 |
| by descent | 1 |
| came the grain | 1 |
| carnally | 1 |
| descent | 1 |
| for aaron and his descendants | 1 |
| for his descendants | 1 |
| for the seed | 1 |
| from his descendants | 1 |
| from their descendants | 1 |
| grandchildren | 1 |
| his countrymen | 1 |
| his descendants forever | 1 |
| his line forever | 1 |
| if a descendant | 1 |
| is seed | 1 |
| is your offspring | 1 |
| it in fertile | 1 |
| it to your descendants | 1 |
| may your offspring | 1 |
| mine | 1 |
| my descendants | 1 |
| of grain | 1 |
| of his descendants | 1 |
| of the descendants | 1 |
| of your children | 1 |
| of your grain | 1 |
| one of his children | 1 |
| or crops | 1 |
| or their children | 1 |
| posterity | 1 |
| seed-bearing | 1 |
| seedtime | 1 |
| some of the seed | 1 |
| the family | 1 |
| them | 1 |
| to his descendants | 1 |
| to the seed required for it | 1 |
| until sowing time | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| whether from the seed | 1 |
| will be a people | 1 |
| will bring upon you and your descendants | 1 |
| with the seed | 1 |
| you and your descendants | 1 |
| you help your seed | 1 |
| you offspring | 1 |
| your children | 1 |
| your grain | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| seed | 35 |
| thy seed | 15 |
| the seed | 12 |
| of the seed | 9 |
| of thy seed | 7 |
| and thy seed | 6 |
| of his seed | 6 |
| and his seed | 5 |
| his seed | 5 |
| unto thy seed | 5 |
| a seed | 4 |
| all the seed | 4 |
| and their seed | 4 |
| their seed | 4 |
| and to thy seed | 3 |
| shall thy seed | 3 |
| unto thee and to thy seed | 3 |
| whose seed | 3 |
| your seed | 3 |
| and all his seed | 2 |
| and in thy seed | 2 |
| and the seed | 2 |
| and to his seed | 2 |
| but the seed | 2 |
| carnally | 2 |
| him all ye the seed | 2 |
| o ye seed | 2 |
| of seed | 2 |
| unto them and to their seed | 2 |
| also of the seed | 1 |
| also that thy seed | 1 |
| and between thy seed | 1 |
| and for their seed | 1 |
| and have no child | 1 |
| and he shall have it and his seed | 1 |
| and her seed | 1 |
| and in thee and in thy seed | 1 |
| and let thy seed | 1 |
| and of his seed | 1 |
| and upon his seed | 1 |
| and upon thy seed | 1 |
| and with the seed | 1 |
| be between me and thee and between my seed | 1 |
| between me and thee and thy seed | 1 |
| between me and you and thy seed | 1 |
| child | 1 |
| for the seed | 1 |
| from their seed | 1 |
| he and his seed | 1 |
| him and his seed | 1 |
| himself his seed | 1 |
| is the seed | 1 |
| it in a fruitful | 1 |
| it to the seed | 1 |
| it unto thy seed | 1 |
| let any of thy seed | 1 |
| me also thy seed | 1 |
| my seed | 1 |
| nor his seed | 1 |
| nor seed | 1 |
| nor their seed | 1 |
| not of the seed | 1 |
| not of thy seed | 1 |
| not unto the seed | 1 |
| of all your seed | 1 |
| of their seed | 1 |
| of thy seeds | 1 |
| of your seed | 1 |
| over the seed | 1 |
| seedtime | 1 |
| shall all the seed | 1 |
| shall be your own for seed | 1 |
| shalt thou make thy seed | 1 |
| so shall your seed | 1 |
| than he and his seed | 1 |
| that be of the seed | 1 |
| that both thou and thy seed | 1 |
| that the seed | 1 |
| that thy seed | 1 |
| the whole seed | 1 |
| thee for unto thee and unto thy seed | 1 |
| thee seed | 1 |
| therefore thou and thy seed | 1 |
| to all his seed | 1 |
| to him and to his seed | 1 |
| to his seed | 1 |
| to the seed | 1 |
| to thee and to thy seed | 1 |
| to thy seed | 1 |
| unto him and his seed | 1 |
| unto the seed | 1 |
| unto the sowing time | 1 |
| unto thee and unto thy seed | 1 |
| unto your seed | 1 |
| upon the seed | 1 |
| upon them and upon their seed | 1 |
| upon thy seed | 1 |
| whereon is the seed | 1 |
| with her carnally | 1 |
| with his seed | 1 |
| with the seed | 1 |
| with you and with your seed | 1 |
Page 1 of 5. 205 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
Read word by wordThe earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Read word by wordThen God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Read word by wordAnd I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Read word by wordAnd Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Read word by wordand seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
Read word by wordAs long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Read word by word“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
Read word by wordThen the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Read word by wordfor all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
Read word by wordI will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Read word by wordAbram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
Read word by wordAnd the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Read word by wordOn that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
Read word by wordThen the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
Read word by wordI will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Read word by wordAnd to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Read word by wordGod also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
Read word by wordThis is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Read word by wordGeneration after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
Read word by wordBut God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Read word by wordCome, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Read word by wordThe next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Read word by wordBut God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
Read word by wordBut I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Read word by wordI will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Read word by wordAnd through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Read word by wordThe LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
Read word by wordAnd they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Read word by wordStay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Read word by wordI will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
Read word by wordand that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
Read word by wordAnd may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
Read word by wordAnd there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
Read word by wordYour descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Read word by wordBut You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.13
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
Read word by wordThen Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Read word by wordBut Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
Read word by wordThey also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.
Read word by wordJacob took with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.
Read word by wordWhy should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
Read word by wordThen Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.
Read word by wordAt harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”
Read word by wordand told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
Read word by word“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”
Read word by wordBut his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
Read word by wordNow the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Read word by wordAaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants.
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