seed

«seed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: children, descendants — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

children, descendants

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The children and later family of a person, the people who come after them. tree →

how it differs from today

Today seed means the small part of a plant that grows into a new plant. The Torah and Sefer Yetzirah sentences use the old sense of children. The Uncle Remus sentence uses seed as dialect spelling of see.

examples

• Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. (Torah GEN.47.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• You oughter seed dat toof, boss. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• He returned him to his bosom and kissed him upon the head, and called him, “My beloved,” and cut a covenant for him and his seed. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

seed

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 243 (Torah 105, tales 134, Sefer Yetzirah 4); EWT 4; ratio 3.1 (Torah alone 27.2); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
• for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
• And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.'
• and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'
• The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.