Childless
עֲרִירִיStrong’s H6185ariri (a-ri-ri)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ariri is the Hebrew word usually translated “childless”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?”
Meaning
- Stripped, childless, bare of children
How it's translated
- childless 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Genesis 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 20:20And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
- Leviticus 20:21And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
- Jeremiah 22:30Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲרִירִי ariri · childless
stripped, childless, bare of children
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.