Topic
Barrenness
14 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 17:15–21Nave Miraculously removed, instances of — Sarai
¶ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall…
- Genesis 20:17Nave Sent as a judgment
¶ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
- Genesis 20:18Nave Sent as a judgment
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
- Genesis 25:21Nave Miraculously removed, instances of — Rebecca
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Genesis 30:22Nave A reproach
¶ And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
- Genesis 30:23Nave A reproach
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
- Judges 13:1–25Nave Miraculously removed, instances of — Manoah's wife
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. ¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was…
- 1 Samuel 1:6Nave A reproach
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 1:6–20Nave Miraculously removed, instances of — Hannah
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. Then said Elkanah her…
- 1 Samuel 1:7Nave A reproach
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
- 1 Samuel 2:1–11Nave A reproach
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any…
- Isaiah 4:1Nave A reproach
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
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- Luke 1:5–25 Nave Miraculously removed, instances of — Elisabeth
- Luke 1:25 Nave A reproach
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 14 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → (Sterility of women)
- → A reproach Ge 30:22,23; 1Sa 1:6,7; 2:1-11; Isa 4:1; Lu 1:25
- → Miraculously removed, instances of
- Sarai Ge 17:15-21
- Rebecca Ge 25:21
- Manoah's wife Jud 13
- Hannah 1Sa 1:6-20
- Elisabeth Lu 1:5-25
- → Sent as a judgment Ge 20:17,18
- → See CHILDLESSNESS
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.