# H2233 זֶרַע

זֶרַע (zeraʻ), Strong’s H2233: seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity KJV: [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.. Occurs 229 times.

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*zeraʻ* — seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

KJV: [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.

Derived from [זָרַע zâraʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H2232) (to sow)

Occurs 229 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- זֶ֫רַע n.m. sowing, seed, offspring
- 1 lit.:
- a a sowing
- b sowing as regularly recurring at its season
- 2 seed
- 3 seed = semen virile
- 4 seed = offspring
- 5 seed as marked by moral quality = persons (or community) of such a quality

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=11) — God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…
- [Genesis 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=12) — The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after…
- [Genesis 1:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=29) — God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree…
- [Genesis 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=15) — I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head…
- [Genesis 4:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=25) — Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child…
- [Genesis 7:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=3) — Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
- [Genesis 8:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=22) — While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not…
- [Genesis 9:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=9) — “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- [Genesis 12:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=7) — The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to the LORD…
- [Genesis 13:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=15) — for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.