זָרַע zâraʻ — to sow
Translated in the KJV as bear, conceive seed, set with sow, yield.
a primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify.
zâraʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 17Participle (active) 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5Imperative 4Wayyiqtol 3Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (passive) 2Cohortative 1Infinitive construct 1Jussive 1
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
