seed
ze.ra denotes descendants or a continuing family line, and also the material plants bear and farmers sow.
The supplied verses most often use the term for descendants, whether a family’s continuing line, a people’s descendants, or royal descent. In agricultural settings it denotes material associated with plants, fields, sowing, produce, and the measurement of a conduit.
Senses in use
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Descendants and continuing family line · dominant
In 2 Samuel 7:12, the construct form occurs in the promise that a successor will be raised after David; the APB renders the clause "I will raise up your seed after you." The same family-line use appears in land promises to ancestral descendants in Deuteronomy 1:8, in Jonathan’s oath concerning both men’s offspring in 1 Samuel 20:42, and in references to priestly, royal, and communal continuance in Exodus 28:43, Daniel 1:3, and Esther 9:27.
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Plant and field material for sowing · common
In Genesis 1:11, the absolute forms occur in the description of plants yielding and trees bearing this material; the APB renders "plants yielding seed" and trees "with seed in them." Agricultural clauses also place the construct form with sowing, field produce, mixed planting, harvest loss, and the prospect of success in Deuteronomy 11:10, Deuteronomy 14:22, Deuteronomy 22:9, Deuteronomy 28:38, and Ecclesiastes 11:6.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with "seed" in both lineage and agricultural clauses, while also using "offspring," "descendants," and "royal descent" in family-line contexts. These renderings show the verse contexts rather than fixed English equivalents for each occurrence.