To conceive
הָרָהStrong’s H2029harah (ha-rah)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Harah is the Hebrew word usually translated “conceived”, “had conceived” and “conceived me”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.”
Meaning
- To conceive, become pregnant, bear, be with child, be conceived, progenitor(Qal) to conceive, become pregnant · (Pual) to be conceived · (Poel) to conceive, contrive, devise
How it's translated
- and she conceived 28
- she had conceived 2
- conceived me 2
- they conceive 2
- and they conceived 1
- did i conceive 1
- and you will conceive 1
- he has been conceived 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 20
- Isaiah 5
- Hosea 4
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Job 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:17And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 16:4And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
- Genesis 16:5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
- Genesis 19:36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
- Genesis 21:2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
- Genesis 25:21And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
הָרָה harah · to conceive
1) to conceive, become pregnant, bear, be with child, be conceived, progenitor 1a)(Qal) to conceive, become pregnant 1b) (Pual) to be conceived 1c) (Poel) to conceive, contrive, devise
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “conceive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONCEIVE, verb transitive
[Latin, to take.]
- To receive into the womb, and breed; to begin the formation of the embryo or fetus of animal.“Then shall she be free and conceive seed” Numbers 5:28“Elisabeth hath conceived a son in her old age” Luke 1:36“In sin did my mother conceive me” Psalms 51:5
- To form in the mind; to imagine; to devise.“They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity” Job 15:35“Nebuchadnezzar hath conceived a purpose against you” Jeremiah 49:30
- To form an idea in the mind; to understand; to comprehend.
- To think; to be of opinion; to have an idea; to imagine.
All definitions and other forms of “conceive”
CONCEIVE, verb intransitive
- To have a fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.“Thou shalt conceive and bear a son” Judges 13:3
- To think; to have a conception or idea.
- To understand; to comprehend; to have a complete idea of; as, I cannot conceive by what means this event has been produced.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.