Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle.

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children.

Then the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and give birth to a son.

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease to hunger.
Even the barren gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children languishes.

“Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.

“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.

“He wrongs the barren woman
And does no good for the widow.

He makes the barren woman abide in the house
As a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord!

Sheol, and the barren womb,
Earth that is never satisfied with water,
And fire that never says, “Enough.”

“Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who has begotten these for me,
Since I have been bereaved of my children
And am barren, an exile and a wanderer?
And who has reared these?
Behold, I was left alone;
From where did these come?’”

“Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child;
Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed;
For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.