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Barren

For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Gen. 16:2; This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Person
Strong’s
H6135, G4723, G6122
Hebrew
עָקָר
Greek
στεῖρα · steira

Strong’s and original-language information

H6135

עָקָר

Glosses: barren

Indexed occurrences: 11

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G4723

στεῖρα · steira

Glosses: barren

στεῖρος, -ον also -α, -ον, [in LXX for עָקָר ; ] barren: of a woman, Luk. 1:7, 36 23:29, Gal.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

G6122

ἄγονος · agonos

Glosses: barren

1. passive unborn , (Iliad by Homer): not yet born , (Euripides) 2. active not producing, unfruitful, barren ;

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

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).

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references39 references

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Sources

Ancient Context4 items

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