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Word Study · Strong's H2233 · Hebrew

זֶרַע

zera

zeh'-rah

Strong's 1890 spelling: zeraʻ

seed

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

Rendered in the KJV as

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

  • 229
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 28 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 118
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 229 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 118

  • זֶ֥רַע15
  • זֶ֣רַע11
  • זַרְעֲךָ֖8
  • זֶ֖רַע7
  • זָ֑רַע7
  • זַרְעֲךָ֙7
  • מִזֶּ֣רַע7
  • זַרְעֶ֑ךָ6
  • זֶ֔רַע5
  • זָֽרַע׃5
  • זַרְע֑וֹ5
  • זֶ֙רַע֙4

and 106 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 71

  • offspring your34
  • seed21
  • [the] offspring of19
  • offspring his11
  • offspring10
  • and to offspring your8
  • to offspring your8
  • seed your7
  • and offspring his6
  • offspring their5
  • and offspring their4
  • and to offspring his4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 27

  • noun · masculine singular37
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular34
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)32
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)19
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular16
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular12
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular11
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular8
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular7
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 37
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 34
  • HNcmsc · 32
  • HR/Ncmsc · 19
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 16
  • HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 12
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 11
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 8
  • HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 7
  • HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 7
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 7
  • HC/Ncmsc · 5

All 229, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis59 occurrences
Exodus6 occurrences
Leviticus24 occurrences
Numbers9 occurrences
Deuteronomy14 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
Ruth1 occurrence
1 Samuel6 occurrences
2 Samuel3 occurrences
1 Kings5 occurrences
2 Kings4 occurrences
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
2 Chronicles2 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah3 occurrences
Esther5 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms18 occurrences
Proverbs1 occurrence
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Isaiah26 occurrences
Jeremiah21 occurrences
Ezekiel6 occurrences
Daniel2 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Haggai1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Malachi2 occurrences

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Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).