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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Seed
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Revelation 12:17
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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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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זֶרַע
zeraʻ · zeh'-rah
220 times translated as this KJV form228 total Strong's occurrences
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
Strong's KJV usage: × carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 1:11Strong's last: Malachi 2:15
Open full H2233 profile →σπέρμα
spérma · sper'-mah
39 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
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 →σίναπι
sínapi · sin'-ap-ee
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
mustard (the plant)
Strong's KJV usage: :--mustard.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 13:31Strong's last: Luke 17:6
Open full G4615 profile →σπείρω
speírō · spi'-ro
4 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
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 →σπόρος
spóros · spro'-os
4 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a scattering (of seed), i.e. (concretely) seed (as sown)
Strong's KJV usage: :--seed (X sown).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 4:26Strong's last: Luke 8:11
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sporá · spor-ah'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
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 →זָרַע
zâraʻ · zaw-rah'
1 times translated as this KJV form56 total Strong's occurrences
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
Strong's KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 12:2Strong's last: Leviticus 12:2
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zᵉraʻ · zer-ah'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
posterity
Strong's KJV usage: seed.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:43Strong's last: Daniel 2:43
Open full H2234 profile →כִּלְאַיִם
kilʼayim · kil-ah'-yim
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
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 →פְּרֻדָה
pᵉrudâh · per-oo-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
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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H2233
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
H2233
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
H2233
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
H2233
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
H2233
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
H2233
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
H2233
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
H2233
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
H2233
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
H2233
And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
H2233
And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
H2233
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
H2233
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
H2233
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
H2233
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?
H2233
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
H2233
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?
H2233
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.
H2233
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.
H2233
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.
H2233
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.
H2233
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.
H2233
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.
H2233
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.
H2233
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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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seed
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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