Lexicon :: Strong's H2233 - zeraʿ

Making a vow, she pleaded, “LORD of Armies, if you will take notice of your servant’s affliction, remember and not forget me, and give your servant a son, I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.”[fn]

Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife: “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she[fn] has given to the LORD.” Then they would go home.

“He can take a tenth of your grain and your vineyards and give them to his officials and servants.

Jonathan then said to David, “Go in the assurance the two of us pledged in the name of the LORD when we said, ‘The LORD will be a witness between you and me and between my offspring and your offspring forever.’ ” Then David left, and Jonathan went into the city.

“Therefore swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s family.”

They brought Ish-bosheth’s head to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here’s the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who intended to take your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”

“When your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

He is a tower of salvation for[fn] his king;

he shows loyalty to his anointed,

to David and his descendants forever.

“The responsibility for their deaths will come back to Joab and to his descendants[fn] forever, but for David, his descendants, his dynasty, and his throne, there will be peace from the LORD forever.”

So the LORD raised up Hadad the Edomite as an enemy against Solomon. He was of the royal family in Edom.

and he built an altar with the stones in the name of the LORD. Then he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold about four gallons.[fn][fn]

“Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased, resembling snow.[fn]

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.

In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah, and he died. Also, they killed the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

you offspring of Israel his servant,

Jacob’s descendants ​— ​his chosen ones.

“When your time comes to be with your ancestors, I will raise up after you your descendant, who is one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs[fn] of the house of Judah.

The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their ancestral families[fn] and their lineage were Israelite:

“Indeed, the Israelite men[fn] have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders[fn] and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! ”

The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but were unable to prove that their ancestral families[fn] and their lineage were Israelite:

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

the Jews bound themselves, their descendants, and all who joined with them to a commitment that they would not fail to celebrate these two days each and every year according to the written instructions and according to the time appointed.

Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus. He was famous among the Jews and highly esteemed by many of his relatives. He continued to pursue prosperity for his people and to speak for the well-being of all his descendants.

You will also know that your offspring will be many

and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Their children are established while they are still alive,[fn]

and their descendants, before their eyes.

Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain

and bring it to your threshing floor?

He gives great victories to his king;

he shows loyalty to his anointed,

to David and his descendants forever.

You will wipe their progeny from the earth

and their offspring from the human race.[fn]

You who fear the LORD, praise him!

All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!

All you descendants of Israel, revere him!

He will live a good life,

and his descendants will inherit the land.[fn]

I have been young and now I am old,

yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned

or his children begging for bread.

The descendants of his servants will inherit it,

and those who love his name will live in it.

“‘I will establish your offspring forever

and build up your throne for all generations.’ ”Selah

“Your servants’ children will dwell securely,

and their offspring will be established before you.”

you offspring of Abraham his servant,

Jacob’s descendants ​— ​his chosen ones.

and would disperse their descendants[fn]

among the nations,

scattering them throughout the lands.

His descendants will be powerful in the land;

the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Though one goes along weeping,

carrying the bag of seed,

he will surely come back with shouts of joy,

carrying his sheaves.