Barren
עָקָרStrong’s H6135aqar (a-qar)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aqar is the Hebrew word usually translated “barren”, “sterile” and “barren of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“But Sarai was barren; she had no child.”
Meaning
- Barren, sterile
How it's translated
- barren 5
- a barren 2
- and barren 1
- a sterile 1
- and a barren 1
- barren of 1
- o barren 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Judges 2
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- Genesis 29:31And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
- Exodus 23:26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- Deuteronomy 7:14Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
- Judges 13:2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
- Judges 13:3And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
Hebrew dictionary
עָקָר aqar · barren
barren, sterile
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “barren” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAR'REN, adjective
[from the same root as bare.]
- Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.
- Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth.
- Not producing the usual fruit; applied to tree, etc.
- Not copious; scanty; as a scheme barren of hints.
All definitions and other forms of “barren”
- Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as a barren treatise.
- Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as barren spectators.
- Unproductive; not inventive; as a barren mind.
BAR'REN, noun
In the States west of the Allegheny, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet.
- Any unproductive tract of land; as the pine barrens of South Carolina.
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.