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# seed

«seed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **children, descendants** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

children, descendants

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The children and later family of a person, the people who come after them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seed/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today seed means the small part of a plant that grows into a new plant. The Torah and Sefer Yetzirah sentences use the old sense of children. The Uncle Remus sentence uses seed as dialect spelling of see.

### examples

- Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. (Torah GEN.47.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seed/#x1)
- You oughter seed dat toof, boss. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seed/#x2)
- He returned him to his bosom and kissed him upon the head, and called him, “My beloved,” and cut a covenant for him and his seed. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seed/#x3)

### primary record

seed

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 243 (Torah 105, tales 134, Sefer Yetzirah 4); EWT 4; ratio 3.1 (Torah alone 27.2); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- ['As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.226/)
- [for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.349/)
- [And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.554/)
- [and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.594/)
- [The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.839/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.