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 3 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.
And she made a vow, saying, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”
Read word by wordAnd Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
Read word by wordHe will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
Read word by wordAnd Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
Read word by wordSo now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.22
They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
Read word by wordAnd when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
Read word by wordGreat salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
Read word by wordTheir blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”
Read word by wordThen the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
Read word by wordBecause of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
Read word by wordAnd with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
Read word by wordTherefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
Read word by wordWhen Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
Read word by wordSo the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
Read word by wordIn the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
Read word by wordO offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
Read word by wordAnd when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
Read word by wordOur God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
Read word by wordWhen Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.
Read word by wordThe following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
Read word by wordIndeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
Read word by wordThe following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
Read word by wordThose of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Read word by wordYou found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
Read word by wordHaman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
Read word by wordthe Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
Read word by wordThese days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
Read word by wordin order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
Read word by wordFor Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
Read word by wordYou will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Read word by wordTheir descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Read word by wordCan you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
Read word by wordGreat salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 18.51
You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.11
You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.24
Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.31
His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
Read word by wordI once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
Read word by wordThey are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
Read word by wordFor the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
Read word by wordThe descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 69.37
‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.5
I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.30
his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.37
The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.29
O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
Read word by wordto disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
Read word by wordHis descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
Read word by wordHe who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
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