Conception
הֵרָיוֹןStrong’s H2032heron (he-ron)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Heron is the Hebrew word usually translated “pregnancy your”, “conception” and “from conception”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
Meaning
- Physical conception, pregnancy, conception
How it's translated
- and pregnancy your 1
- conception 1
- and from conception 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Ruth 1
- Hosea 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
הֵרָיוֹן heron · conception
physical conception, pregnancy, conception
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “conception” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONCEPTION, noun
[Latin, See Conceive.]
- The act of conceiving; the first formation of the embryo or fetus of an animal.“I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception” Genesis 3:16
- The state of being conceived.
- In pneumatology, apprehension of nay thing by the mind; the act of conceiving in the mind; that mental act or combination of acts by which an idea or notion is formed of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation formerly felt.
- conception may be sometimes used for the power of conceiving ideas, as when we say, a thing is not within our conception Some writers have defined conception as a distinct faculty of the mind; but it is considered by others as memory, and perhaps with propriety.
All definitions
- Purpose conceived; conception with reference to the performance of an act.
- Apprehension; knowledge.
- Conceit; affected sentiment, or thought.
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.