Genesis 11:30
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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Barren
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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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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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עָקָר
ʻâqâr · aw-kawr'
10 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
Strong's KJV usage: (× male or female) barren (woman).
Strong's first: Genesis 11:30Strong's last: Isaiah 54:1
Open full H6135 profile →στείρος
steíros · sti'-ros
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
"sterile"
Strong's KJV usage: :--barren.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 1:7Strong's last: Galatians 4:27
Open full G4723 profile →שַׁכּוּל
shakkûwl · shak-kool'
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
bereaved
Strong's KJV usage: barren, bereaved (robbed) of children (whelps).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 4:2Strong's last: Song of Solomon 6:6
Open full H7909 profile →שָׁכֹל
shâkôl · shaw-kole'
2 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 2:19Strong's last: 2 Kings 2:21
Open full H7921 profile →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.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 1:8Strong's last: 2 Peter 1:8
Open full G692 profile →מְלֵחָה
mᵉlêchâh · mel-ay-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H4420 profile →עֹצֶר
ʻôtser · o'-tser
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
closure; also constraint
Strong's KJV usage: × barren, oppression, × prison.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 30:16Strong's last: Proverbs 30:16
Open full H6115 profile →צִיָּה
tsîyâh · tsee-yaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
aridity; concretely, a desert
Strong's KJV usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
Strong's first: Joel 2:20Strong's last: Joel 2:20
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He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
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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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