Barrenness
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Barrenness (3 Occurrences)

Romans 4:19 And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness. (WEY RSV)

2 Kings 2:21 And he went forth to the source of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith Jehovah: I have healed these waters: there shall not be from thence any more death or barrenness. (DBY)

Psalms 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. (KJV WBS)

Thesaurus
Barrenness (3 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BARREN; BARRENNESS. ... In Israel and among oriental
peoples generally barrenness was a woman's and a family's greatest misfortune. ...
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Barren (44 Occurrences)
... Instances of barrenness are noticed (Genesis 11:30; 25:21; 29:31; Judges 13:2,
3; Luke 1:7, 36). Noah Webster's Dictionary. ... BARREN; BARRENNESS. ...
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Barricade (5 Occurrences)

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Vital (2 Occurrences)
... 19 And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers
which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness...
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Nearly (13 Occurrences)
... 19 And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers
which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness...
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Growing (31 Occurrences)
... 19 And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers
which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness...
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Ishmael (44 Occurrences)
... strange practice. It was customary among ancient peoples to correct the natural
defect of barrenness by substituting a slave woman. In ...
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Tribe (250 Occurrences)
... he legally belonged. At his birth Rachel, whose barrenness had been a sore
trial to her, exclaimed "God hath judged me. and hath ...
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Decayed (7 Occurrences)
... 19 And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers
which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness...
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Dan (71 Occurrences)
... he legally belonged. At his birth Rachel, whose barrenness had been a sore
trial to her, exclaimed "God hath judged me. and hath ...
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Greek
2048. eremos -- solitary, desolate
... vegetation"). This root () does "not suggest absolute barrenness but territory
affording free range for shepherds and their flocks. ...
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ATS Bible Dictionary
Barrenness

An affliction peculiarly lamented throughout the East, Genesis 16:1 30:1-23 1 Samuel 1:6,19 Isaiah 47:9 49:21 Luke 1:25, especially by the Jewish women, who remembered the promised Messiah, Genesis 3:15, and hoped for the honor of his parentage. The strength of this feeling is evinced by the extraordinary and often unjustifiable measures it led them to adopt, Genesis 16:2 19:31 38:14 De 25:5-10. Professed Christians are charged with barrenness, if they are destitute of the fruits of the Spirit, and do not abound in good works, Luke 13:6-9 2 Peter 1:8.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BARREN; BARRENNESS

bar'-en, (bar'-en-nes tsiyah; melehah; shakhol; `aqar; steiros; argos):

(1) Of land that bears no crop, either

(a) because it is naturally poor and sterile: tsiyah "dry" (Joel 2:20), melechah, "salt" (Job 39:6 the King James Version), shakhol, "miscarrying" (2 Kings 2:19, 21), or

(b) because it is, under God's curse, turned into a melechah or salt desert, for the wickedness of the people that dwell therein (Psalm 107:34 the King James Version; compare Genesis 3:17, 18).

(2) Of females that bear no issue: `aqar: Sarah (Genesis 11:30); Rebekah (Genesis 25:21); Rachel (Genesis 29:31); Manoah's wife (Judges 13:2, 3); Hannah (1 Samuel 2:5); steiros: Elisabeth (Luke 1:7, 36).

In Israel and among oriental peoples generally barrenness was a woman's and a family's greatest misfortune. The highest sanctions of religion and patriotism blessed the fruitful woman, because children were necessary for the perpetuation of the tribe and its religion. It is significant that the mothers of the Hebrew race, Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel, were by nature sterile, and therefore God's special intervention shows His particular favor to Israel. Fruitfulness was God's special blessing to His people (Exodus 23:26 Deuteronomy 7:14 Psalm 113:9). A complete family is an emblem of beauty (Songs 4:2; Songs 6:6). Metaphorically, Israel, in her days of adversity, when her children were exiled, was barren, but in her restoration she shall rejoice in many children (Isaiah 54:1 Galatians 4:27). The utter despair and terror of the destruction of Jerusalem could go no farther than that the barren should be called blessed (Luke 23:29).

(3) Argos is translated in the King James Version "barren," but in the Revised Version (British and American) more accurately "idle" (2 Peter 1:8).

T. Rees

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
Strong's Hebrew
4420. melechah -- saltiness, barrenness
... << 4419, 4420. melechah. 4421 >>. saltiness, barrenness. Transliteration: melechah
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-ay-khaw') Short Definition: salt. ...
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