ze.ra H2233

זֶ֫רַע (ze.ra) means “seed” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

זֶ֫רַע Hebrew · H2233 229 tagged occurrences in 205 verses

Pronunciation guide: zeh'-rah Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2233G

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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TBESH · H2233H

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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TBESH · H2233I

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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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H2232 (זָרַע); seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

KJV glosses: [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.

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How translators render H2233

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
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

KJV rendering counts
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

Verses containing H2233

Page 5 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.

Amos 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
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Haggai 2:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
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Zechariah 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.
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Malachi 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.
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Malachi 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
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