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# זְרַע

Biblical Aramaic

**seed** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

seed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְרַע: seed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] seed (cf. BH I. זרע);—cstr. ז׳ אֲנָשָׁא Dn 2:43 seed (offspring) of men.

### Jastrow 1903

זְרַע II: seed-capsule [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. O. Gen. I, 11; a. fr. בר ז׳ that which is fit for propagation, seed-capsule, v. בִּיזְרָא. Targ. Prov. XI, 21; a. fr.—Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 26 Ms. (ed. דרעיה, v. דְּרַע II).—Y. Snh. VII, end, 25ᵈ ז׳ דכיתן flax-seed.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the offspring (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.43/#tree)

וְדִ֣י חֲזַ֗יְתָ פַּרְזְלָא֙ מְעָרַב֙ בַּחֲסַ֣ף טִינָ֔א מִתְעָרְבִ֤ין לֶהֱוֺן֙ בִּזְרַ֣ע אֲנָשָׁ֔א וְלָֽא־לֶהֱוֺ֥ן דָּבְקִ֖ין דְּנָ֣ה עִם־דְּנָ֑ה הֵֽא־כְדִ֣י פַרְזְלָ֔א לָ֥א מִתְעָרַ֖ב עִם־חַסְפָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and that you.saw the iron mixed with the.clay of the.clay mixing they.will.be with the.offspring of.(the) humankind and not they.will.be clinging this with this here! like that (the) iron not \[is\].mixing with (the) clay

*JPS 1917:* And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves by the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).