Childless

1. Childless (through bereavement)
2. Bereaved, robbed of offspring

• robbed of cubs 3
• and deprived of offspring 2
• bereaved 1
• childless 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Song of Solomon 2
• 2 Samuel 1
• Proverbs 1
• Isaiah 1
• Jeremiah 1
• Hosea 1

6 books in all.

• Be bereaved (shakhol)
• Childless (ariri)
• Childless (ateknos)
• Bereavement (shekhol)

• Proverbs 17:12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
• Song of Solomon 4:2Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
• Song of Solomon 6:6Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
• Isaiah 49:21Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
• Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
• Hosea 13:8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “bereaved” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.