Hebrew adjective · H6135
עָקָר
aqaraw-kawr'
barren
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâqâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6135is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6135
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
The King James renders it: ([idiom] male or female) barren (woman).
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
aqar is rendered "barren". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:30But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
Genesis 11:30עֲקָרָ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- barren5
- a barren2
- a sterile1
- and a barren1
- and barren1
- barren of1
- O barren1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָקָה | aqah | pressure | Uses1 |
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- עֲקָרָ֖ה3
- עֲקָרָה֙2
- וַעֲקָרָ֖ה1
- וַֽעֲקָרָ֖ה1
- עָקָ֥ר1
- עֲקָרָ֑ה1
- עֲ֭קָרָה1
- עֲקָרָֽה׃1
- עֲקֶ֬רֶת1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · feminine singular8HAafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singular2HC/Aafsa
- adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HAafsc
- adjective · masculine singular1HAamsa
Genesis
three uses
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
- עֲקָרָ֑הʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: barren
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.
- עֲקָרָ֖הʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: barren
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- עֲקָרָֽה׃ʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: barren
Exodus
one use
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- וַעֲקָרָ֖הvaakarahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and barren
Deuteronomy
two uses
You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
- עָקָ֥רʾakaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a sterile
- וַֽעֲקָרָ֖הvaakarahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and a barren
Judges
two uses
Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
- עֲקָרָ֖הʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: barren
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.
- עֲקָרָה֙ʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: barren
1 Samuel
one use
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.
- עֲקָרָה֙ʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a barren
Job
one use
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
- עֲ֭קָרָהʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a barren
Psalms
one use
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- עֲקֶ֬רֶתʾakeretadjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: barren of
Isaiah
one use
“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.
- עֲקָרָ֖הʾakarahadjective · feminine singulartagged: O barren
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.