עָקָר
ʻâqâr · H6135 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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sterile, barren
State in which humans or animals, whether male or female, are unable to procreate
ExamplesGenesis 11:30 Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.
Genesis 25:21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children; and the LORD answered him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Genesis 29:31 Now the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was unable to have children.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 3
- יָלַדto bear 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
- רָעָהto shepherd, to feed, to graze 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- רָחֵלewe 1
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1
- אַתָּהyou 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- עֲרִירִי ʻărîyrîy · H6185 · childless
- Both words describe barrenness: "barren" denotes the inability to bear children, and "childless" the state of having no children.
In the other Testament 1 word
- στείρος steíros · G4723 · barren, not able to bear children
- Greek στείρος directly translates Hebrew עָקָר with the same core meaning of physical inability to conceive or produce offspring, applicable to both male and female subjects.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unable002001001065
- עָקָר describes barrenness, the inability of a man or woman to bear children.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6135. aqar עָקָר adjective barren; — ׳ע of male Deu 7:14, עֲקָרָה of female Deu 7:14…
עָקָר adjective barren; — ׳ע of male Deu 7:14, עֲקָרָה of female Deu 7:14 (mankind and beasts), Exo 23:26 (E; female); elsewhere of women Gen 11:30; Gen 25:21; Gen 29:31 (all J), Jdg 13:2-3, 1Sa 2:5; Job 24:21; Psa 113:9 (עֲקֶרֶת construct); of personified Zion Isa 54:1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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