'Barren' in the Bible
And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she is barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,
And Jehovah seeth that Leah is the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel is barren;
there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:
Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman -- nor among your cattle;
And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name is Manoah, his wife is barren, and hath not borne;
and a messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto the woman, and saith unto her, 'Lo, I pray thee, thou art barren, and hast not borne; when thou hast conceived, then thou hast borne a son.
The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.
Treating evil the barren who beareth not, And to the widow he doth no good,
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!
Sing, O barren, she hath not borne! Break forth with singing, and cry aloud, She hath not brought forth! For more are the sons of the desolate, Than the sons of the married one, said Jehovah.
and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.
and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;
for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'