Childlessness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Childlessness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–7 of 7 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Genesis 16:2 OT
Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
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When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.” Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the…
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Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
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1 Samuel 1:6 OT
Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
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Isaiah 4:1 OT
Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
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Luke 1:25 NT
“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”