עָקָר ʻâqâr

Meaning

sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)

In the King James Version: ([idiom] male or female) barren (woman).

Derivation: from H6131 (עָקַר);

Where it is used

• Genesis 11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
• Genesis 25:21 Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
• Genesis 29:31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
• Exodus 23:26 No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
• Deuteronomy 7:14 You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
• Judges 13:2 Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
• Judges 13:3 The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
• 1 Samuel 2:5 The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
• Job 24:21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
• Psalms 113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
• Isaiah 54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.