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Nave Topical Bible
• Seed
Scofield Reference Index
• Mustard Seed
Thompson Chain Reference
• Seed of the Wicked
• Seed of the Righteous
• Mustard Seed
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Ants, Wisdom in Seed Gathering & Storage
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Seed
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Coriander Seed
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Seed, Seedtime
• Coriander Seed
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Seed (2)
• Seed
King James Dictionary
• Seed
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Mustard Seed
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Seed, Mustard
• Seed Growing Secretly, Parable of the
• Seed
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Seed
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Seed
Whyte's Bible Characters
• The Man Who Took a Rain of Mustard Seed and Sowed It in His Field
• The Man Who Cast Seed Into the Round and It Grew Up He Knew Not How
• The Man Which Sowed Good Seed in His Field but His Enemy Came and Sowed Tares Among the Wheat
Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Tilley Seed
• Til Seed
• Stick-Seed
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Seed
• Seed, the One
• Seeded
Lexicons
• ܙܰܪܥܳܐ
• ܙܰܪܥܽܘܢܶܐ
• κόκκος
• σίναπι
• ἐπισπείρω , σπείρω
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• זָרַע
• זֶרַע
• זְרַע
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SEED, n.

1. The substance, animal or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species. The seeds of plants are a deciduous part, containing the rudiments of a new vegetable. In some cases, the seeds costitute the fruit or valuable part of plants, as in the case of wheat and other esculent grain sometimes the seeds are inclosed in fruit, as in apples and melons. When applied to animal matter, it has no plural.

2. That from which any thing springs first principle original as the seeds of virtue or vice.

3. Principle of production.

Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed. Waller.

4. 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 but rarely used in the plural.

5. Race generation birth.

Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller.

SEED, 51

1. To grow to maturity, so as to produce seed. Maiz will not seed in a cool climate.

2. To shed the seed.

SEED, 5t. To sow to sprinkle with seed, which germinates and takes root.