Strong's Greek · G4723
G4723 steíros
στείρος
sti'-ros
barren
Looking for Hebrew H4723 miqveh? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G4723. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
steíros appears 5 times in Scripture, in Luke, Galatians and Hebrews. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
"sterile"
In the King James Version
barren
Derivation
a contraction from G4731 (στερεός) (as stiff and unnatural);
Appears 5 times in Scripture
“Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.”
“For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.””
“By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.”
“Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’”
“But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
