Barren
Bible Usage:
- barren used 23 times.
- barrenness used once.
- First Reference: Genesis 11:30
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 1:8
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H6115 Used 1 time
- H6135 Used 11 times
- H6723 Used 1 time
- H7909 Used 2 times
- H7921 Used 2 times
- G4723 Used 4 times
- G692 Used 1 time
For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Genesis 16:2; 30:1-23; 1 Samuel 1:6, 27; Isaiah 47:9; 49:21; Luke 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Genesis 11:30; 25:21; 29:31; Judges 13:2, 3; Luke 1:7, 36).
BAR'REN, adjective [from the same root as bare.]
1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.
2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth.
3. Not producing the usual fruit; applied to tree, etc.
4. Not copious; scanty; as a scheme barren of hints.
5. Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as a barren treatise.
6. Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as barren spectators.
7. Unproductive; not inventive; as a barren mind.
BAR'REN, noun In the States west of the Allegheny, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet.
2. Any unproductive tract of land; as the pine barrens of South Carolina.
BAR'RENLY, adverb Unfruitfully.
Sterility of women.
A reproach
Genesis 30:22-23; 1 Samuel 1:6-7; 1 Samuel 2:1-11; Isaiah 4:1; Luke 1:25
Miraculously removed, instances of:
Sarai
Genesis 17:15-21
Rebecca
Genesis 25:21
Manoah's wife
Jude 1:13
Hannah
1 Samuel 1:6-20
Elizabeth
Luke 1:5-25
Sent as a judgment
Genesis 20:17-18
Childlessness
BAR'RENNESS, adverb The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals.
2. Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantities; as the barrenness of soil.
3. Want of invention; want of the power of producing any thing new; applied to the mind.
4. Want of matter; scantiness; as the barrenness of a cause.
5. Defect of emotion, sensibility or fervency; as the barrenness of devotion.
BAR'RENWORT, noun [See Wort.] A plant, constituting the genus Epimedium, of which the alpinum is the only species; a low herbaceous plant, with a creeping root, having many stalks, each of which has three flowers.