זֶ֫רַע
ze.ra
seed
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "ze.ra" (H2233G) is primarily associated with the concept of a seed. Its definition is straightforward, referring to the small, often planted, reproductive unit of a plant. This word is part of the semantic domain of Agriculture & Land, indicating its relevance to farming, planting, and cultivation. The word "ze.ra" appears 44 times in the Bible, suggesting its importance in various contexts. Its usage range is broad, encompassing themes such as planting, harvesting, growth, and fertility. In many cases, the word is used metaphorically to describe the origins or beginnings of something, such as a person, a nation, or an idea. The significance of "ze.ra" lies in its connection to the natural world and the cycles of life. As a symbol of new life and growth, it represents the potential for renewal and transformation. Its repeated use in the Bible underscores the importance of understanding and respecting the natural world, as well as the value of nurturing and cultivating life.
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Occurrences in Scripture
44 total occurrences across the text
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
Psalms 126:6He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Ecclesiastes 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
Isaiah 17:11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isaiah 23:3On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
Isaiah 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
Isaiah 55:10For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
Jeremiah 31:27“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.
Jeremiah 31:27“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.
Jeremiah 35:7You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’
Jeremiah 35:9and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;
Ezekiel 17:5“ ‘ “He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
Ezekiel 17:5“ ‘ “He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
Amos 9:13“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
Haggai 2:19Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”
Zechariah 8:12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
Genesis 1:11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
Genesis 1:11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
Genesis 1:12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:29God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Genesis 1:29God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Genesis 47:19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
Genesis 47:23Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
Genesis 47:24It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
Exodus 16:31The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
Leviticus 11:37If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
Leviticus 11:38But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
Leviticus 26:5Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Leviticus 26:16I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
Leviticus 27:16“ ‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:16“ ‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:30“ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.
Numbers 11:7The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
Numbers 20:5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
Deuteronomy 14:22You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
Deuteronomy 11:10For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
Deuteronomy 22:9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
Deuteronomy 28:38You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
1 Samuel 8:15He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Kings 18:32With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed.