Strong's Definition
from 2232; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV Usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
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)
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)
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)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · זרע
Plants
seed, grain = a flowering plant’s unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant, in some cases also used as food
GEN 1:11 · GEN 1:11 · GEN 1:12 · GEN 1:12 · GEN 1:29 · GEN 1:29 · GEN 47:19 · GEN 47:23 · GEN 47:24 · EXO 16:31 · LEV 11:37 · LEV 11:38 · LEV 26:16 · LEV 27:16 · LEV 27:16 · LEV 27:30 · NUM 11:7 · NUM 20:5 · NUM 24:7 · DEU 11:10 · DEU 14:22 · DEU 22:9 · DEU 28:38 · 1SA 8:15 · 1KI 18:32 · JOB 39:12 · PSA 126:6 · ECC 11:6 · ISA 5:10 · ISA 23:3 · ISA 30:23 · ISA 55:10 · JER 2:21 · JER 31:27 · JER 31:27 · JER 35:7 · JER 35:9 · EZK 17:5 · EZK 17:5 · AMO 9:13 · HAG 2:19
Plant
sowing literally: seed; hence: = action by which humans scatter seeds or plant young plants in a field so that they may grow into a new crop
People
semen, sperm = a thick whitish fluid containing spermatozoa, that is ejaculated from the male genital tract
LEV 15:16 · LEV 15:17 · LEV 15:18 · LEV 15:32 · LEV 18:20 · LEV 19:20 · LEV 22:4 · NUM 5:13 · NUM 5:28
Relatives | ≈ בֵּן · פְּרִי · צֶאֱצָא
offspring, child, children = a person’s child or children, or the young of an animal
GEN 3:15 · GEN 3:15 · GEN 4:25 · GEN 7:3 · GEN 9:9 · GEN 12:7 · GEN 13:15 · GEN 13:16 · GEN 13:16 · GEN 15:3 · GEN 15:5 · GEN 15:13 · GEN 15:18 · GEN 16:10 · GEN 17:7 · GEN 17:7 · GEN 17:8 · GEN 17:9 · GEN 17:10 · GEN 17:12 · GEN 17:19 · GEN 19:32 · GEN 19:34 · GEN 21:12 · GEN 21:13 · GEN 22:17 · GEN 22:17 · GEN 22:18 · GEN 24:7 · GEN 24:60 · GEN 26:3 · GEN 26:4 · GEN 26:4 · GEN 26:4 · GEN 26:24 · GEN 28:4 · GEN 28:13 · GEN 28:14 · GEN 28:14 · GEN 32:13 · GEN 35:12 · GEN 38:8 · GEN 38:9 · GEN 38:9 · GEN 46:6 · GEN 46:7 · GEN 48:4 · GEN 48:11 · GEN 48:19 · EXO 28:43 · EXO 30:21 · EXO 32:13 · EXO 32:13 · EXO 33:1 · LEV 18:21 · LEV 20:2 · LEV 20:3 · LEV 20:4 · LEV 21:15 · LEV 21:17 · LEV 21:21 · LEV 22:3 · LEV 22:4 · LEV 22:13 · NUM 14:24 · NUM 17:5 · NUM 18:19 · NUM 25:13 · DEU 1:8 · DEU 4:37 · DEU 10:15 · DEU 11:9 · DEU 28:46 · DEU 28:59 · DEU 30:6 · DEU 30:19 · DEU 31:21 · DEU 34:4 · JOS 24:3 · RUT 4:12 · 1SA 1:11 · 1SA 2:20 · 1SA 20:42 · 1SA 20:42 · 1SA 24:22 · 2SA 4:8 · 2SA 7:12 · 2SA 22:51 · 1KI 2:33 · 1KI 2:33 · 1KI 11:39 · 2KI 5:27 · 2KI 17:20 · 1CH 16:13 · 1CH 17:11 · 2CH 20:7 · NEH 9:2 · NEH 9:8 · EST 9:27 · EST 9:28 · EST 9:31 · JOB 5:25 · JOB 21:8 · PSA 18:51 · PSA 21:11 · PSA 22:24 · PSA 22:24 · PSA 22:31 · PSA 25:13 · PSA 37:25 · PSA 37:26 · PSA 37:28 · PSA 69:37 · PSA 89:5 · PSA 89:30 · PSA 89:37 · PSA 102:29 · PSA 105:6 · PSA 106:27 · PSA 112:2 · ISA 14:20 · ISA 41:8 · ISA 43:5 · ISA 44:3 · ISA 45:19 · ISA 45:25 · ISA 48:19 · ISA 53:10 · ISA 54:3 · ISA 59:21 · ISA 59:21 · ISA 59:21 · ISA 61:9 · ISA 65:9 · ISA 66:22 · JER 7:15 · JER 22:28 · JER 22:30 · JER 23:8 · JER 29:32 · JER 30:10 · JER 31:36 · JER 31:37 · JER 33:22 · JER 33:26 · JER 33:26 · JER 33:26 · JER 36:31 · JER 46:27 · JER 49:10 · EZK 20:5 · EZK 43:19 · DAN 9:1 · MAL 2:3 · MAL 2:15
Groups
stock, race, family, lineage = group of people that consider themselves descendants of one single ancestor
1KI 11:14 · 2KI 11:1 · 2KI 25:25 · 2CH 22:10 · EZR 2:59 · EZR 9:2 · NEH 7:61 · EST 6:13 · EST 10:3 · PRO 11:21 · ISA 6:13 · ISA 61:9 · ISA 65:23 · JER 41:1 · EZK 17:13 · EZK 44:22 · DAN 1:3
1 PRO 11:21 RSV NIV NRSV "those who are" NJB "race" GNT CEV = [g] | NJPS ESV REB "offspring" = [f]
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
זֶ֫רַע n.m. sowing, seed, offspring lit.: a sowing
sowing as regularly recurring at its season
seed
seed = semen virile
seed = offspring
seed as marked by moral quality = persons (or community) of such a quality
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