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Barren

7Greek/Hebrew entries

23stored occurrences

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Greek G175 ákarpos

Original: ἄκαρπος

Meaning:
from Α (as a negative particle) and καρπός; barren (literally or figuratively):--without fruit, unfruitful.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: barren (literally or figuratively):--without fruit, unfruitful.

Hebrew H4420 mᵉlêchâh

Original: מְלֵחָה

Meaning:
from מָלַח (in its denominative sense); understood as land (אֶרֶץ); properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert; barren land(-ness), salt (land).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: barren land(-ness), salt (land).

Hebrew H6115 ʻôtser

Original: עֹצֶר

Meaning:
from עָצָר; closure; also constraint; [idiom] barren, oppression, [idiom] prison.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: [idiom] barren, oppression, [idiom] prison.

Hebrew H6135 ʻâqâr

Original: עָקָר

Meaning:
from עָקַר; sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs); ([idiom] male or female) barren (woman).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: ([idiom] male or female) barren (woman).

Hebrew H6723 tsîyâh

Original: צִיָּה

Meaning:
from an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert; barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.

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Hebrew H7909 shakkûwl

Original: שַׁכּוּל

Meaning:
or שַׁכֻּל; from שָׁכֹל; bereaved; barren, bereaved (robbed) of children (whelps).

Hebrew H7921 shâkôl

Original: שָׁכֹל

Meaning:
a primitive root; properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively); bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, [idiom] expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.

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^{Genesis 11:30} But Sarai was barren; she had no child. Open

^{Genesis 25:21} And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. Open

^{Genesis 29:31} And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. Open

^{Exodus 23:26} There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. Open

^{Deuteronomy 7:14} Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. Open

^{Judges 13:2} And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. Open

^{Judges 13:3} And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. Open

^{1 Samuel 2:5} They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. Open

^{2 Kings 2:19} And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren. Open

^{2 Kings 2:21} And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. Open

^{Job 24:21} He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. Open

^{Job 39:6} Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. Open

^{Psalm 113:9} He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. Open

^{Proverbs 30:16} The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. Open

^{Song of Solomon 4:2} Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Open

^{Song of Solomon 6:6} Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. Open

^{Isaiah 54:1} Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Open

^{Joel 2:20} But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. Open

^{Luke 1:7} And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. Open

^{Luke 1:36} And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. Open

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^{Luke 23:29} For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Open

^{Galatians 4:27} For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Open

^{2 Peter 1:8} For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Open

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