Lexicon :: Strong's H2232 - zāraʿ

Then Isaac planted [seed] in that land [as a farmer] and reaped in the same year a hundred times [as much as he had planted], and the LORD blessed and favored him.

“You shall sow your land six years and harvest its yield,

‘If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male child, she shall be [ceremonially] unclean for seven days, unclean as during her monthly period.

‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear clothing of two kinds of material mixed together.

“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or everything produced by the seed which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard will become defiled [and banned for use].

‘Then this shall be the sign [of these things] to you [Hezekiah]: this year you will eat what grows of itself, in the second year what springs up voluntarily, and in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

“As I have seen, those who plow wickedness

And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

Then let me plant and [let] another eat [from the results of my labor],

And let my crops be uprooted and ruined.

Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path,

And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].

And sow fields and plant vineyards,

And produce an abundant harvest.

They who sow in tears shall reap with joyful singing.

The wicked man earns deceptive wages,

But he who sows righteousness and lives his life with integrity will have a true reward [that is both permanent and satisfying].

He who sows injustice will reap [a harvest of] trouble,

And the rod of his wrath [with which he oppresses others] will fail.

Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle with your hands in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening planting will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation

And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—

Therefore you plant [fn]lovely plants

And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,

Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed?

Does he continually dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?

Then He will give you rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread [grain] from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your livestock will graze in large and roomy pastures.

Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [[fn]when the river overflows its banks and irrigates the land],

You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.

“This shall be the sign [of these things] to you [Hezekiah]: you are to eat this year [fn]what grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same, and in the third year you are to sow and harvest, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Scarcely have they been planted,

Scarcely have they been sown,

Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,

But He merely blows on them, and they wither,

And a strong wind carries them away like stubble.

“For as the rain and snow come down from heaven,

And do not return there without watering the earth,

Making it bear and sprout,

And providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

“I remember [earnestly] the lovingkindness and devotion of [fn]your youth,

Your time of betrothal [like that of a bride during the early years in Egypt and again at Sinai],

When you followed Me in the wilderness,

Through a land not sown.

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,

“Plow your uncultivated ground [for a season],

And do not sow among thorns.

“They have planted wheat but have reaped thorns;

They have exhausted themselves but without profit.

So be ashamed of your harvest

Because of the fierce and raging anger of the LORD.”

“Behold (listen carefully), the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

“Cut off the sower from Babylon

And the one who handles the sickle at the time of harvest.

For fear of the sword of the oppressor

Everyone will return to his own people

And everyone will flee to his own land.

“I will sow her for Myself in the land.

I will also have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;

And I will say to those who were not My people,

‘You are My people,’

And they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

For they sow the wind [in evil]

And they reap the whirlwind [in disaster].

The standing grain has no growth;

It yields no grain.

If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it up.

Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate];

Reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness.

Break up your uncultivated ground,

For it is time to seek and search diligently for the LORD [and to long for His blessing]

Until He comes to rain righteousness and His gift of salvation on you.