To sow
זָרַעStrong’s H2232zara (za-ra)
Appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zara is the Hebrew word usually translated “sow”, “bears seed” and “it will be sown”. It appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.”
Meaning
- To sow, scatter seed(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Pual) to be sown · (Hiphil) to produce seed, yield seed
How it's translated
- you will sow 10
- bears seed 4
- sow 4
- and you will sow 3
- it will be sown 2
- it is sown 2
- sown 2
- and he sowed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Isaiah 7
- Jeremiah 6
- Genesis 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- Psalms 3
19 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:11And 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.
- Genesis 1:12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Genesis 26:12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
- Genesis 47:23Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
- Exodus 23:10And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
All 54 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
זָרַע zara · to sow
1) to sow, scatter seed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sow 1a2) producing, yielding seed 1b)(Niphal) 1b1) to be sown 1b2) to become pregnant, be made pregnant 1c) (Pual) to be sown 1d) (Hiphil) to produce seed, yield seed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOW, noun
- The female of the hog kind or of swine.
- An oblong piece of lead.
- An insect; a milleped.
All definitions and other forms of “sow”
SOW'-BREAD, noun
A plant of the genus Cyclamen.
SOW'-BUG, noun
An insect; a milleped.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.