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title: זְרַע — seed · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: זְרַע (lemma:זְרַע), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: seed. BDB 1906: seed. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זְרַע

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«זְרַע» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **seed** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:זְרַע · **BDB:** זְרַע

### Glosses

the.offspring (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/#m3)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זְרַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e2/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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