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Barren

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

23exact KJV occurrences 18Old Testament 5New Testament 15books containing the word 8mapped Strong's IDs 22occurrence-specific Strong's links
LAST OCCURRENCE

2 Peter 1:8

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where barren appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH6135
עָקָר

ʻâqâr · aw-kawr'

10 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences

a

sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)

Strong's KJV usage: (× male or female) barren (woman).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 11:30Strong's last: Isaiah 54:1

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HebrewH7921
שָׁכֹל

shâkôl · shaw-kole'

2 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, × expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.

Strong's first: 2 Kings 2:19Strong's last: 2 Kings 2:21

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GreekG692
ἀργός

argós · ar-gos'

1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences

inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless

Strong's KJV usage: :--barren, idle, slow.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Peter 1:8Strong's last: 2 Peter 1:8

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HebrewH4420
מְלֵחָה

mᵉlêchâh · mel-ay-khaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert

Strong's KJV usage: barren land(-ness), salt (land).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 39:6Strong's last: Job 39:6

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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23 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 25:21
H6135

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 29:31
H6135

And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Exodus 23:26
H6135

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Deuteronomy 7:14
H6135

Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Judges 13:2
H6135

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

Judges 13:3
H6135

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

1 Samuel 2:5
H6135

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

2 Kings 2:19
H7921

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

2 Kings 2:21
H7921

And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

Job 24:21
H6135

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

Job 39:6
H4420

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Psalms 113:9
no direct Strong's tag

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

Proverbs 30:16
H6115

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Song of Solomon 4:2
H7909

Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

Song of Solomon 6:6
H7909

Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

Isaiah 54:1
H6135

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

Joel 2:20
H6723

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

Luke 1:7
G4723

And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

Luke 1:36
G4723

And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

Luke 23:29
G4723

For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

Galatians 4:27
G4723

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

2 Peter 1:8
G692

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

barren

BAR'REN, adjective [from the same root as bare.]

1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.

2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth.

3. Not producing the usual fruit; applied to tree, etc.

4. Not copious; scanty; as a scheme barren of hints.

5. Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as a barren treatise.

6. Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as barren spectators.

7. Unproductive; not inventive; as a barren mind.

BAR'REN, noun In the States west of the Allegheny, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet.

2. Any unproductive tract of land; as the pine barrens of South Carolina.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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