Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Read in context →And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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zeraʻ · zeh'-rah
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
Strong's KJV usage: × carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
Strong's first: Genesis 1:11Strong's last: Malachi 2:15
Open full H2233 profile →spérma · sper'-mah
something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm"); by implication, offspring; specially, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting)
Strong's KJV usage: :--issue, seed.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:24Strong's last: Revelation 12:17
Open full G4690 profile →sínapi · sin'-ap-ee
mustard (the plant)
Strong's KJV usage: :--mustard.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:31Strong's last: Luke 17:6
Open full G4615 profile →speírō · spi'-ro
to scatter, i.e. sow (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sow(- er), receive seed.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:19Strong's last: Matthew 13:23
Open full G4687 profile →spóros · spro'-os
a scattering (of seed), i.e. (concretely) seed (as sown)
Strong's KJV usage: :--seed (X sown).
Strong's first: Mark 4:26Strong's last: Luke 8:11
Open full G4703 profile →sporá · spor-ah'
a sowing, i.e. (by implication) parentage
Strong's KJV usage: :--seed.
Strong's first: 1 Peter 1:23Strong's last: 1 Peter 1:23
Open full G4701 profile →zâraʻ · zaw-rah'
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
Strong's KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Strong's first: Leviticus 12:2Strong's last: Leviticus 12:2
Open full H2232 profile →zᵉraʻ · zer-ah'
posterity
Strong's KJV usage: seed.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:43Strong's last: Daniel 2:43
Open full H2234 profile →kilʼayim · kil-ah'-yim
two heterogeneities
Strong's KJV usage: divers seeds (-e kinds), mingled (seed).
Strong's first: Leviticus 19:19Strong's last: Leviticus 19:19
Open full H3610 profile →pᵉrudâh · per-oo-daw'
something separated, i.e. a kernel
Strong's KJV usage: seed.
Strong's first: Joel 1:17Strong's last: Joel 1:17
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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
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SEED, noun
1. The substance, animal or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species. The seeds of plants are a deciduous part, containing the rudiments of a new vegetable. In some cases, the seeds costitute the fruit or valuable part of plants, as in the case of wheat and other esculent grain; sometimes the seeds are inclosed in fruit, as in apples and melons. When applied to animal matter, it has no plural.
2. That from which any thing springs; first principle; original; as the seeds of virtue or vice.
3. Principle of production.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed. Waller.
4. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. In this sense, the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form; but rarely used in the plural.
5. Race; generation; birth.
Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller.
SEED, verb intransitive
1. To grow to maturity, so as to produce seed. Maiz will not seed in a cool climate.
2. To shed the seed
SEED, verb transitive To sow; to sprinkle with seed which germinates and takes root.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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