Lexicon :: Strong's H2232 - zāraʿ

Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.

God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you,

Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped[fn] a hundred times what was sown. The LORD blessed him,

Joseph said to the people, “Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.

“Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.

“Also observe the Festival of Harvest[fn] with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering[fn] at the end of the year, when you gather your produce[fn] from the field.

“If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;

“Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity.

“You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.

“You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.

“The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.

“If you wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce? ’

“When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.

“then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you ​— ​wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

“But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.

“For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand[fn] as in a vegetable garden.

“The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.

“Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

“All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD demolished in his fierce anger.

Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east came and attacked them.

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

“This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

In my experience, those who plow injustice

and those who sow trouble reap the same.

let someone else eat what I have sown,

and let my crops be uprooted.

Light dawns[fn][fn] for the righteous,

gladness for the upright in heart.

They sow fields and plant vineyards

that yield a fruitful harvest.

Those who sow in tears

will reap with shouts of joy.

The wicked person earns an empty wage,

but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.

The one who sows injustice will reap disaster,

and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

One who watches the wind will not sow,

and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.

In the morning sow your seed,

and at evening do not let your hand rest,

because you don’t know which will succeed,

whether one or the other,

or if both of them will be equally good.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,

and you have failed to remember

the rock of your strength;

therefore you will plant beautiful plants

and set out cuttings from exotic vines.

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?

Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

Then he will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

You will be happy as you sow seed

beside abundant water,

and as you let oxen and donkeys range freely.

“ ‘This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

They are barely planted, barely sown,

their stem hardly takes root in the ground

when he blows on them and they wither,

and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

“For just as rain and snow fall from heaven

and do not return there

without saturating the earth

and making it germinate and sprout,

and providing seed to sow

and food to eat,

“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says:

I remember the loyalty of your youth,

your love as a bride —

how you followed me in the wilderness,

in a land not sown.

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

Break up the unplowed ground;

do not sow among the thorns.

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.

They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.

Be put to shame by your harvests

because of the LORD’s burning anger.

“Look, the days are coming” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of people and the seed of animals.

“You must not build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Rather, you must live in tents your whole life, so you may live a long time on the soil where you stay as a resident alien.’

Cut off the sower from Babylon

as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time.

Because of the oppressor’s sword,

each will turn to his own people,

each will flee to his own land.

“Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

I will sow her[fn] in the land for myself,

and I will have compassion

on Lo-ruhamah;

I will say to Lo-ammi:

You are my people,

and he will say, “You are my God.”

Indeed, they sow the wind

and reap the whirlwind.

There is no standing grain;

what sprouts fails to yield flour.

Even if they did,

foreigners would swallow it up.

Sow righteousness for yourselves

and reap faithful love;

break up your unplowed ground.

It is time to seek the LORD

until he comes and sends righteousness

on you like the rain.