זָרַע

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:11

• מַזְרִ֣יעַmazria'verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: bears seed

The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:12

• מַזְרִ֤יעַmazria'verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: bears seed

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 1:29

• זֹרֵ֣עַzorea'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: bears seed
• זֹרֵ֣עַzorea'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: bears seed

Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

Genesis 26:12

• וַיִּזְרַ֤עvaiyizra'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sowed

Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

Genesis 47:23

• וּזְרַעְתֶּ֖םuzera'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will sow

For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

Exodus 23:10

• תִּזְרַ֣עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

Exodus 23:16

• תִּזְרַ֖עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

Leviticus 11:37

• יִזָּרֵ֑עַyizarea'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be sown

“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

Leviticus 12:2

• תַזְרִ֔יעַtazria'verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will bear a child

You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

Leviticus 19:19

• תִזְרַ֣עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

Leviticus 25:3

• תִּזְרַ֣עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

Leviticus 25:4

• תִזְרָ֔עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

Leviticus 25:11

• תִזְרָ֔עוּtizrauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will sow

Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

Leviticus 25:20

• נִזְרָ֔עnizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will sow

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

Leviticus 25:22

• וּזְרַעְתֶּ֗םuzera'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will sow

then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26:16

• וּזְרַעְתֶּ֤םuzera'temHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will sow

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.

Numbers 5:28

• וְנִזְרְעָ֥הvenizreahHc/VNq3fstagged: and she will be impregnated

For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

Deuteronomy 11:10

• תִּזְרַע֙tizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you sowed

bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

Deuteronomy 21:4

• יִזָּרֵ֑עַyizarea'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is sown

Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

Deuteronomy 22:9

• תִזְרַ֥עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow
• תִּזְרָ֔עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 29:23

• תִזָּרַע֙tizara'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is sown

Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

Judges 6:3

• זָרַ֣עzara'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it sowed

And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

Judges 9:45

• וַיִּזְרָעֶ֖הָvaiyizraehaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he sowed it

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

2 Kings 19:29

• זִרְע֧וּziruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sow

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Job 4:8

• וְזֹרְעֵ֖יvezoreeiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and sowers of

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Job 31:8

• אֶ֭זְרְעָהʾezreahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me sow

Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.

Psalms 97:11

• זָרֻ֣עַzarua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: sown

They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

Psalms 107:37

• וַיִּזְרְע֣וּvaiyizreuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sowed

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

Psalms 126:5

• הַזֹּרְעִ֥יםhazoreimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those sow

The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Proverbs 11:18

• וְזֹרֵ֥עַvezorea'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and sows

He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Proverbs 22:8

• זוֹרֵ֣עַzorea'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sows

He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

• יִזְרָ֑עyizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will sow

Sow 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.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

• זְרַ֣עzera'verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: sow

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

Isaiah 17:10

• תִּזְרָעֶֽנּוּ׃tizraenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you sow it

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

Isaiah 28:24

• לִזְרֹ֑עַlizroa'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sow

Then 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.

Isaiah 30:23

• תִּזְרַ֣עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.

Isaiah 32:20

• זֹרְעֵ֖יzoreeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O sow

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 37:30

• זִרְע֧וּziruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sow

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Isaiah 40:24

• זֹרָ֔עוּzorauverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been sown

For 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,

Isaiah 55:10

• לַזֹּרֵ֔עַlazorea'preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: to the sower

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Jeremiah 2:2

• זְרוּעָֽה׃zeruahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: sown

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

Jeremiah 4:3

• תִּזְרְע֖וּtizreuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you sow

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

Jeremiah 12:13

• זָרְע֤וּzareuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people have sown

“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.

Jeremiah 31:27

• וְזָרַעְתִּ֗יvezara'tiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will sow

Nor 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.’

Jeremiah 35:7

• תִזְרָ֙עוּ֙tizrauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you must sow

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 50:16

• זוֹרֵ֙עַ֙zorea'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: sower

For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Ezekiel 36:9

• וְנִזְרַעְתֶּֽם׃venizra'temHc/VNq2mptagged: and you will be sown

And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”

Hosea 2:23

• וּזְרַעְתִּ֤יהָuzera'tihaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3fstagged: and I will sow her

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Hosea 8:7

• יִזְרָ֖עוּyizrauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they sow

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

Hosea 10:12

• זִרְע֨וּziruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sow

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

Micah 6:15

• תִזְרַ֖עtizra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will sow

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

Nahum 1:14

• יִזָּרַ֥עyizara'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be sown

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

Haggai 1:6

• זְרַעְתֶּ֨םzera'temverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have sown

Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.

Zechariah 10:9

• וְאֶזְרָעֵם֙veezraemHC/Vqu1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will sow them