Strong's Hebrew · H6135
עָקָר
ʻâqâr · aw-kawr'
([idiom] male or female) barren (woman).
Definition
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
Derivation
from H6131 (עָקַר);
Appears 12 times in Scripture
“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.”
“The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.”
“Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.”
“When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.”
“Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.”
“You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.”
“But Sarai was barren; she had no children.”
“No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.”
“They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).