עֲרִירִי
ʻărîyrîy · H6185 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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childless
State in which humans, whether male or female, have no children
ExamplesGenesis 15:2 But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Leviticus 20:20 ‘If there is a man who sleeps with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּתַבto write down, to write, to inscribe 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
- עָקָר ʻâqâr · H6135 · sterile, barren
- 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
- ἄτεκνος áteknos · G815 · childless, having no children
- Greek ἄτεκνος directly renders Hebrew עֲרִירִי with exact semantic equivalence (childless/without offspring); the terms denote identical states across Hebrew and Greek contexts with no register or sense-scope divergence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unable002001001065
- עֲרִירִי describes being childless, unable to produce an heir.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6185. ariri עֲרִירִי adjective stripped, specifically childless; — ׳ע Gen 15:2 (JE), Jer…
עֲרִירִי adjective stripped, specifically childless; — ׳ע Gen 15:2 (JE), Jer 22:30; plural עֲרִירִים Lev 20:20-21, (H).
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
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