Seed Of David

Romans 1:3; ‘seed’ in the sense of ‘offspring/lineage’ is archaic in ordinary modern English (where ‘seed’ otherwise means a plant seed or, colloquially, a starting input, as in ‘seed money’ or ‘seed an idea’); ‘descendant of David’ is an acceptable plain-language gloss, but the older King James-influenced phrase ‘seed of David’ is worth retaining alongside it given its familiarity in English hymnody and older translations.