What Does Job 5:25 Mean in the King James?
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “seed” also names a lineage, so the verse’s abundance is life multiplying forward.
THE MEANING
Your future is pictured as a lineage growing abundant: what you carry as seed extends into descendants, numerous as grass across the earth. The image holds fertility and continuity together, making abundance something alive that keeps emerging.
THE ROOT
זֶרַע
zeraʿ
GROWS FROM
זרע
To sow; seed, with the sense of offspring or descendants.
The same Hebrew word, זֶרַע (zeraʿ), can mean seed and descendants. English separates the planted seed from the family line, while the Hebrew holds both as life carried forward and multiplied.
ALSO GROWS
zāraʿ: To sow or scatter seed.
זָרַע
The verb shows seed as part of an ongoing movement of planting and growth.
zōrēaʿ: A sower; one who sows.
זֹרֵעַ
This form keeps the seed connected to the act that sends it into the world.
zeraʿ: Seed; also offspring or descendants.
זֶרַע
This is the verse’s key word: its agricultural and family meanings make abundance both harvest and lineage.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures abundance as life multiplying outward from a seed into a people, a landscape, or shelter for others.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.THE THREAD
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.Job’s זֶרַע (zeraʿ, seed) and Genesis’s “seed” are the same Hebrew word, linking descendants to a sky too numerous to count. Genesis stretches the image from lineage to stars; Job brings it down to grass covering the earth.
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