And the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your [a]descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:7 (NASB)
[a] Lit seed
I’m charmed by the imagery of “seed in the land” that ties us back to the third day of creation.
Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
Genesis 1:11 (NASB)
After the water was separated from land, plants began to grow.
Yes, “seed” refers to descendants and offspring, but the word choice gives us an echo.