זֶרַע
zeraʻ · zeh'-rah
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2232 (זָרַע);
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
- seed
- figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest › to see and know
To cut, to sustain of the head, the highest that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זֶרַע above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
229 occurrences · 229 OT · 0 NT · 118 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- seed31 · 23%
- thy seed14 · 11%
- the seed9 · 7%
- of the seed7 · 5%
- his seed6 · 5%
- and thy seed6 · 5%
- of thy seed6 · 5%
- and his seed5 · 4%
- unto thy seed5 · 4%
- all the seed4 · 3%
- of his seed4 · 3%
- and their seed4 · 3%
- their seed4 · 3%
- a seed4 · 3%
- your seed3 · 2%
- and to thy seed3 · 2%
- unto them and to their seed2 · 2%
- of seed2 · 2%
- carnally2 · 2%
- and all his seed2 · 2%
- and in thy seed2 · 2%
- any of his seed2 · 2%
- unto thee, and to thy seed2 · 2%
- shall thy seed2 · 2%
- whose seed2 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.