But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech's household on account of Abraham's wife Sarah.

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

These twenty years I am with thee; thy sheep and thy she-goats were not barren, and the rams of thy flock, I ate not.