זֶרַע
zeraʿ
sowing
Strong's H2233NounHebrewTWOT 582aFamily

זֶרַע (zeraʿ) is a Hebrew noun meaning sowing. It appears 229 times in 28 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2233).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 582a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 582a)sowing, seed, offspring; fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity; child, fruitful, seedtime
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

זֶ֫רַע noun, masculine: sowing, seed, offspring

Strong's H2233 זֶרַע: seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV:× carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 582: זָרַע zāraʿ — sow, scatter seed; producing, yielding seed; be sown, fructified, made pregnant; produce seed, bear a child; disseminate, plant, fructify; bear, conceive seed, set with sow, set with sower, yield

See it in Scripture

Genesis 1:11Exodus 16:31Leviticus 11:37

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