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 2 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.
Thus they are to wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this shall be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”
Read word by wordRemember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
Read word by wordIf a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
Read word by wordbut if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
Read word by wordWhen a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Read word by wordAny clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
Read word by wordIf a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
Read word by wordThis is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
Read word by wordYou must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
Read word by wordYou must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Read word by wordIf a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
Read word by word“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
Read word by wordAnd I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.
Read word by wordAnd if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,
Read word by wordso that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
Read word by word“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
Read word by wordNo descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the food offerings to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.
Read word by wordTell them that for the generations to come, if any of their descendants in a state of uncleanness approaches the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.
Read word by wordIf a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,
Read word by wordBut if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
Read word by wordYour threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
Read word by wordthen this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Read word by wordIf a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
Read word by wordThus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
Read word by wordby sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
Read word by wordBut if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.
Read word by wordNow the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
Read word by wordBut because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
Read word by wordjust as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 17.5
All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
Read word by wordWhy have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
Read word by wordWater will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
Read word by wordIt will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
Read word by wordSee, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
Read word by wordBecause He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
Read word by wordYet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
Read word by wordand so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read word by wordFor the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
Read word by wordYou must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
Read word by wordDo not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
Read word by wordYou will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
Read word by wordThese curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.
Read word by wordHe will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
Read word by wordThe LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Read word by wordI call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
Read word by wordAnd when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
Read word by wordAnd the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”
Read word by wordBut I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
Read word by wordAnd may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
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