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Barren

For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Gen. 16:2; 30:1-23; 1 Sam. 1:6, 27; Isa. 47:9; 49:21; Luke 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Gen. 11:30; 25:21; 29:31; Judg. 13:2, 3; Luke 1:7, 36).

In the Bible

39

Verses where Barren is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Samuel 2:5

    The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

  • 2 Kings 2:19

    Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”

  • 2 Kings 2:21

    and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness. ’”

  • 2 Peter 1:8

    For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Deuteronomy 7:14

    You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

  • Deuteronomy 32:10

    He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

+33 more verses naming Barren.

Barren references

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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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