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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Barrenness

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Naves Topical Index
Barrenness

Sterility of women.

A reproach
Genesis 30:22-23; 1 Samuel 1:6-7; 1 Samuel 2:1-11; Isaiah 4:1; Luke 1:25

Miraculously removed, instances of:

Sarai
Genesis 17:15-21

Rebecca
Genesis 25:21

Manoah's wife
Jude 1:13

Hannah
1 Samuel 1:6-20

Elizabeth
Luke 1:5-25

Sent as a judgment
Genesis 20:17-18
Childlessness


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Barrenness

BAR'RENNESS, adverb The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals.

2. Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantities; as the barrenness of soil.

3. Want of invention; want of the power of producing any thing new; applied to the mind.

4. Want of matter; scantiness; as the barrenness of a cause.

5. Defect of emotion, sensibility or fervency; as the barrenness of devotion.