Seed

How seed was used

Seed for eating

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Seed as an offering

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Seed to measure value

Leviticus 27:16 YLT

‘And if of the field of his possession a man sanctify to Jehovah, then hath thy valuation been according to its seed; a homer of barley-seed at fifty shekels of silver;

How seed was appreciated

The presence of seed was a blessing

Zechariah 8:12 YLT

Because of the sowing of peace, The vine doth give her fruit, And the earth doth give her increase, And the heavens do give their dew, And I have caused the remnant of this people To inherit all these.

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The absence of seed was a curse

Joel 1:16–17 YLT

Is not before our eyes food cut off? From the house of our God joy and rejoicing? Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

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Regulations in the law concerning seed

Deuteronomy 22:9 YLT

‘Thou dost not sow thy vineyard with divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated.

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Seed used figuratively to illustrate kingdom life

To illustrate those ready to enter the kingdom of God

John 4:35–38 YLT

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already. ‘And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together; for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper. I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

To illustrate birth into eternal life

1 Peter 1:23 YLT

being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God—living and remaining—to the age.

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To illustrate the growth of the kingdom of God

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To illustrate the growth of the church

1 Corinthians 3:6–7 YLT

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth—God;

To illustrate God’s word and people’s response to it

See also the parable of the sower

To illustrate faith

Matthew 17:20 YLT

And Jesus said to them, ‘Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

To illustrate the principle that death comes before life

John 12:23–25 YLT

And Jesus responded to them, saying, ‘The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified; verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit; he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world—to life age-during shall keep it;

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To illustrate the resurrection body

1 Corinthians 15:35–38 YLT

But some one will say, ‘How do the dead rise? unwise! thou—what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die; and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others, and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.

God calls his people to sow seeds of righteousness

James 3:18 YLT

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

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