SEED

- Every herb, tree and grass yields its own Ge 1:11,12,29 - Each kind of, has its own body 1Co 15:38 - SOWING OF . Time for, called seed time Ge 8:22 . Necessary to its productiveness Joh 12:24; 1Co 15:36 . Required constant diligence Ec 11:4,6 . Often attended with great waste Mt 13:4,5,7 . Often attended with danger Ps 126:5,6 - Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant Ge 8:21,22 - The ground carefully ploughed, and prepared for Isa 28:24,25 - Often sown beside rivers Ec 11:1; Isa 32:20 - Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen Isa 32:20 - Required to be watered by the rain Isa 55:10 - In Egypt required to be artificially watered De 11:10 - Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan Ge 26:12; Mt 13:23 - MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING . Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field Le 19:19; De 22:9 . If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing Le 11:37 . If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing Le 11:38 . The tithe of, to be given to God Le 27:30 . Not to be sown during the sabbatical year Le 25:4,20 . Not to be sown in year of jubilee Le 25:11 - Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed 1Co 15:37,38 - THE JEWS PUNISHED BY . Its rotting in the ground Joe 1:17; Mal 2:3 . Its yielding but little increase Isa 5:10; Hag 1:6 . Its increase being consumed by locusts De 28:38; Joe 1:4 . Its increase being consume by enemies Le 26:16; De 28:33,51 . Its being choked by thorns Jer 12:13; Mt 13:7 - ILLUSTRATIVE OF . The word of God Lu 8:11; 1Pe 1:23 . Spiritual life 1Jo 3:9 - SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF . Preaching the gospel Mt 13:3,32; 1Co 9:11 . Scattering or dispersing a people Zec 10:9 . Christian liberality Ec 11:6; 2Co 9:6 . Men's works producing a corresponding recompence Job 4:8; Ho 10:12; Ga 6:7,8 . The death of Christ and its effects Joh 12:24 . The burial of the body 1Co 15:36-38

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Ge 1:11; often used figuratively in Scripture, Da 9:1 1Pe 1:23 1Jo 3:9. There was an injunction in the Mosaic Law against sowing a field with mingled seed of diverse kinds, Le 19:19. The "precious seed" is often committed to the ground with many fears; but the harvest, at least in spiritual things, shall be a season of joy, Ps 126:5,6.

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SEED. → Every herb, tree, and grass, yields its own Ge 1:11,12,29 → Each kind has its own body 1Co 15:38 → Not to be mingled in sowing Le 19:19; De 22:9 → Parables concerning Mt 13; Lu 8 → Illustrative Ec 11:6; Ho 10:12; 2Co 9:6; Ga 6:7,8 → Sowing of, type of burial of the body 1Co 15:36-38

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seed. Seed, n. what produces plants and animals, an original, generation, offspring, race, extraction

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Seed (sēd), n.; pl. Seed or Seeds (#). [[OE. seed, sed, AS. sǣd, fr. sāwan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. sāð, sæði, Goth. manasēþs seed of men, world. See Sow to scatter seed, and cf. Colza.]] 1. 1. (Bot.) (a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant. (b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
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. Gen. i. 11. ☞ The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle. 2. 2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; — not used in the plural.
3. 3. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
4. 4. The principle of production.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. Waller. 5. 5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
☞ In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural. 6. 6. Race; generation; birth.
Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller. Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. — Seed bud (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. — Seed coat (Bot.), the covering of a seed. — Seed corn, or Seed grain (Bot.), corn or grain for seed. — Seed down (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed. — Seed drill. See 6th Drill, 2 (a). — Seed eater (Zoöl.), any finch of the genera Sporophila, and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds. — Seed gall (Zoöl.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. — Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon. — Seed lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. — Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. — Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. — Seed pearl, a small pearl of little value. — Seed plat, or Seed plot, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery. — Seed stalk (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. — Seed tick (Zoöl.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color. — Seed vessel (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the seeds; a pericarp. — Seed weevil (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small weevils, especially those of the genus Apion, which live in the seeds of various plants. — Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds.