6 Bible Verses about Barrenness, Examples Of

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

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

Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.

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.

She said, “Let your maidservant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad. Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the Lord.”

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.