Words the Bible translates as offspring
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 13 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- spermaσπέρμαseed: the living source from which a plant grows or a line of descendants comes
- zeraזֶרַעoffspring: the descendants a person leaves behind, held together as one ongoing line rather than counted as separate children.
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- seed: what a plant produces to reproduce itself, together with the sowing of it and the crop it yields.
- semen: the male emission from which a child is conceived.
- karposκαρπόςfruit: what something yields, whether the produce of a plant or the result a life, action, or work brings forth.
- genosγένοςa group that belongs together by common origin: offspring, a people, or a kind of thing
- periפְּרִיoffspring: the young a person or an animal brings forth, named as the fruit of the body
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- fruit: what a tree, vine, or field brings forth, and what a person or nation yields when pictured as a growing plant
- result: what a person's conduct, words, or work produces, the outcome it earns
- gennēmaγέννημαoffspring: the young a creature brings forth, used in the Gospels only in the insult "brood of vipers."
- moledetמוֹלֶדֶתthe whole setting of a person's birth: their native land, their kindred, or their offspring, depending on what the context has in view
- yalidיָלִידone born into a particular household or family line: a person identified by whose house or whose stock he was born to
- tse'etsaצֶאֱצָאwhat has come forth from a source: the children and descendants a person has produced, or the growth a stretch of ground sends up
- shegerשֶׁגֶרoffspringnot studied yet
- ninנִיןoffspringnot studied yet
- shaḥisסָחִישׁoffspringnot studied yet
- yatsiיָצִיאoffspringnot studied yet
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