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seed

Meaning of “seed”

Sense 1: The reproductive substance of a plant or creature, especially what is sown to produce after its kind. Sense 2: Offspring, descendants, or lineage. Sense 3: A beginning, source, or thing sown that produces a result.

Definition sources

Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
279 occurrences254 verses43 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 1:11

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Mark 4:26
¶ And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 4:26 · retained source text

¶ And he said, So is the kingdome of God, as if a man should cast seede into the ground,

Mark 4:27
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 4:27 · retained source text

And should sleepe, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow vp, he knoweth not how.

Mark 4:31
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 4:31 · retained source text

It is like a graine of mustard seed: which when it is sowen in the earth, is lesse then all the seedes that be in the earth.

Mark 12:19
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 12:19 · retained source text

Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If a mans brother die, and leaue his wife behind him, and leaue no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seed vnto his brother.

Mark 12:20
Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 12:20 · retained source text

Now there were seuen brethren: and the first tooke a wife, and dying left no seede.

Mark 12:21
And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 12:21 · retained source text

And the second tooke her, and died, neither left he any seed, and the third likewise.

Mark 12:22
And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 12:22 · retained source text

And the seuen had her, and left no seede: last of all the woman died also.

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Galatians 3:16

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Luke 8:11

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

The substance, animal or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species. That from which any thing springs; first principle; original. Principle of production. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants. Race; generation; birth.

volume 2, leaves 551 and 553, column 2 (duplicate noun scans, senses 1-5)