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Hebrew a-f · H2030

הָרֶה

harehhaw-reh'

pregnant; pregnant

16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: hâreh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2030is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 11
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2030

pregnant

The King James renders it: (be, woman) with child, conceive, [idiom] great.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

hareh is rendered "pregnant; pregnant". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "pregnant".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 16:11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
  • The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.

The first use

The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

Genesis 16:11הָרָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: pregnant, and pregnant.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
pregnantStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 16:11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son…
pregnantStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • pregnant10
  • pregnant of2
  • a pregnant1
  • and pregnant its1
  • and pregnant their1
  • the pregnant its1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 16, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

11 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הָרָ֖ה3
  • הָרָה֙3
  • הָרָ֥ה2
  • הֶהָ֥רוֹתֶ֖יהָ1
  • הָרָ֑ה1
  • הָרָ֜ה1
  • הָרָ֣ה1
  • הָר֣וֹת1
  • הֲרַ֥ת1
  • וְהָרִיּוֹתָ֖יו1
  • וְהָרֹתֵיהֶ֖ם1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · feminine singular11HAafsa
  • adjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HAafpc
  • adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HAafsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Aafpc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Aafpc/Sp3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HTd/Aafpc/Sp3fs

Genesis

three uses
  • The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

    Genesis 16:11

    • הָרָ֖הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant
  • About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

    Genesis 38:24

    • הָרָ֖הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant
  • As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”

    Genesis 38:25

    • הָרָ֑הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant

Exodus

one use
  • If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.

    Exodus 21:22

    • הָרָה֙harahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant

Judges

two uses
  • For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

    Judges 13:5

    • הָרָ֜הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant
  • But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”

    Judges 13:7

    • הָרָ֖הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant

1 Samuel

one use
  • Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.

    1 Samuel 4:19

    • הָרָ֣הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant

2 Samuel

one use
  • And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

    2 Samuel 11:5

    • הָרָ֥הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant

2 Kings

two uses
  • “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

    2 Kings 8:12

    • וְהָרֹתֵיהֶ֖םveharoteihemconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and pregnant their
  • At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.

    2 Kings 15:16

    • הֶהָ֥רוֹתֶ֖יהָheharoteihathe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: the pregnant its

Isaiah

two uses
  • Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

    Isaiah 7:14

    • הָרָה֙harahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant
  • As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

    Isaiah 26:17

    • הָרָה֙harahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a pregnant

Jeremiah

two uses
  • because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

    Jeremiah 20:17

    • הֲרַ֥תharatadjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pregnant of
  • Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!

    Jeremiah 31:8

    • הָרָ֥הharahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pregnant

Hosea

one use
  • Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

    Hosea 13:16

    • וְהָרִיּוֹתָ֖יוvehariyotavconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and pregnant its

Amos

one use
  • This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

    Amos 1:13

    • הָר֣וֹתharotadjective · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pregnant of

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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