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Birth
Featured studies
6 results- StudyThe Virgin BirthA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Genealogy of Jesus: Matthew's 3×14Fourteen, fourteen, fourteen: the design Matthew states out loud, the four women in the royal line, and the Jeconiah hinge.
- StudyOmega (Ωω): the Greek letterThe last letter, and the far end of the sentence that starts at alpha.
- StudyJesus Christ: what we believeOne person with two natures, fully God and fully man, born of a virgin, sinless, crucified in our place, raised bodily, ascended, praying for us now, and coming back.
- StudyThe Jeconiah Blood CurseGod swore no descendant of Jeconiah would ever reign — yet Matthew runs Messiah's line straight through him; the virgin birth is how both stay true.
Verses
139 results- VerseMatthew 24:8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
- VerseGalatians 2:15We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
- VerseGenesis 30:21After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
- VerseGenesis 36:4And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
- VerseGenesis 38:5Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
People
2 results- PersonNicodemusA Pharisee and ruler who came to Jesus by night to hear of the new birth, later defended Him, and helped bury Him (John 3; 7:50; 19:39).
- PersonJeremiahPriest of Anathoth called before birth to uproot and to plant; the weeping prophet of Jerusalem's fall who bought a field in the siege and announced the new covenant written on…
Words (Strong's)
14 results- WordG1079 γενετή · genetḗ (Greek)birth. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG1077 γενέσια · genésia (Greek)birthday ceremonies. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH4351 מְכוּרָה · mᵉkûwrâh (Hebrew)origin (as if a mine). The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordH4866 מִשְׁבֵּר · mishbêr (Hebrew)the orifice of the womb (from which the fetus breaks forth). The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordG1083 γέννησις · génnēsis (Greek)nativity. A Greek word of the lexicon floor, with its parsing and its occurrences on the word page.
Themes
3 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
Topics
3 resultsProphecies
10 results- ProphecyTime of Birth ForetoldDaniel's 70 weeks prophecy provided a precise timeline: 69 weeks (483 years) from the decree to restore Jerusalem to the appearing of Messiah the Prince.
- ProphecyJoy at His BirthGreat joy would accompany the Messiah's birth.
- ProphecyA Star Announces His BirthA star would signal the Messiah's birth.
- ProphecyBorn in BethlehemMicah specified the exact town of the Messiah's birth — Bethlehem Ephratah in Judah. The prophecy also hints at the Messiah's eternal pre-existence.
- ProphecyHis Pre-ExistenceThe Messiah's origins are 'from everlasting' — he existed before his birth in Bethlehem.
Apologetics
1 resultVoices
2 results- VoiceOlympiodorus of AlexandriaOlympiodorus was a deacon of the church of Alexandria in the sixth century. Nothing personal is recorded about him — no birth, no family, no controversy, no death scene. He…
- VoiceRichard of Saint VictorRichard was a Scot — the tradition is firm on that, though nothing certain is known of his birth or his early years. He came to Paris and entered the abbey of Saint-Victor, a…
Apocrypha (study resources)
6 results- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 7:5For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 14:42Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:
- Study resource2 Esdras 6:26And the men that are received shall see it, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 6:7And in the day of the king’s birth every month they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the fast of Bacchus was kept, the Jews were compelled…
- Study resource2 Esdras 4:40So he answered me, and said, Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.