זֶרַע zeraʻ

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.

Derivation: from H2232 (זָרַע);

Where it is used

• Ezra 2:59 The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
• Ezra 9:2 Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
• Nehemiah 7:61 The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
• Nehemiah 9:2 Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
• Nehemiah 9:8 You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
• Esther 6:13 Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
• Esther 9:27 the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
• Esther 9:28 These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
• Esther 9:31 in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
• Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
• Job 5:25 You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
• Job 21:8 Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
• Job 39:12 Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
• Psalms 18:50 Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
• Psalms 21:10 You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
• Psalms 22:23 You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!
• Psalms 22:30 Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
• Psalms 25:13 His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
• Psalms 37:25 I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
• Psalms 37:26 They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
• Psalms 37:28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
• Psalms 69:36 The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
• Psalms 89:4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
• Psalms 89:29 I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
• Psalms 89:36 his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
• Psalms 102:28 The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
• Psalms 105:6 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
• Psalms 106:27 to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
• Psalms 112:2 His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
• Psalms 126:6 He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
• Proverbs 11:21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
• Ecclesiastes 11:6 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.
• Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
• Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
• Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
• Isaiah 14:20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
• Isaiah 17:11 though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
• Isaiah 23:3 On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
• Isaiah 30:23 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 41:8 “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
• Isaiah 43:5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
• Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
• Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
• Isaiah 45:25 In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.
• Isaiah 48:19 Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
• Isaiah 53:10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
• Isaiah 54:3 For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
• Isaiah 55:10 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 57:3 “But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
• Isaiah 57:4 Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,
• Isaiah 59:21 “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
• Isaiah 61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.
• Isaiah 65:9 And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.
• Isaiah 65:23 They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
• Isaiah 66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
• Jeremiah 2:21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• Jeremiah 7:15 And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
• Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
• Jeremiah 22:30 This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
• Jeremiah 23:8 Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”