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

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.

Judges 13:3

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.

Genesis 25:21

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.

Genesis 29:31

When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

Judges 13:2

Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

Deuteronomy 7:14

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

Genesis 11:30

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Exodus 23:26

No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.

Job 24:21

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).

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