Offspring
צֶאֱצָאStrong’s H6631tseetsa (tse-e-tsa)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tseetsa is the Hebrew word usually translated “descendants their”, “descendants your” and “descendants his”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.”
Meaning
- Offspring, produce, issueoffspring (of men) · produce (of earth) · descendants (metaphorical)
How it's translated
- and descendants their 3
- and descendants your 1
- and descendants his 1
- and produce my 1
- the descendants 1
- produce its 1
- and produce its 1
- descendants your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 7
- Job 4
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 21:8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
- Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
- Isaiah 22:24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
- Isaiah 34:1Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
- Isaiah 42:5Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Hebrew dictionary
צֶאֱצָא tseetsa · offspring
1) offspring, produce, issue 1a) offspring (of men) 1b) produce (of earth) 1c) descendants (metaphorical)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “offspring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OFF'SPRING, noun
[off and spring.
- A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. Acts 17:28Revelation 22:16
- Propagation; generation.
- Production of any kind.
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.