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 4 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.
Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
Read word by wordSow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
Read word by wordAlas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Read word by wordFor ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Read word by wordAnd though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
Read word by wordYou will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
Read word by wordthough on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
Read word by wordOn the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
Read word by wordThen He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
Read word by word“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
Read word by wordDo not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
Read word by wordFor I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
Read word by wordI have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
Read word by wordIn the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.
Read word by wordYour descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
Read word by wordYet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
Read word by wordFor you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
Read word by wordFor just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Read word by word“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Read word by wordWhom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,
Read word by word“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
Read word by wordTheir descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.
Read word by wordAnd I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.
Read word by wordThey will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
Read word by word“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
Read word by wordI had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
Read word by wordAnd I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
Read word by wordIs this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
Read word by wordInstead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
Read word by wordthis is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
Read word by wordAs for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
Read word by word“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.
Read word by word“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordAs the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
Read word by wordthen I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
Read word by wordNor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
Read word by wordNor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
Read word by wordI will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
Read word by wordIn the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.
Read word by wordBut you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
Read word by wordBut I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
Read word by wordHe took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.
Read word by wordHe took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
Read word by wordand tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’
Read word by wordYou are to give a young bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are of the family of Zadok, who approach Me to minister before Me, declares the Lord GOD.
Read word by wordAnd they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.
Read word by wordThen the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
Read word by wordIn the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—
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