38 occurrences in 13 translations

'Bear' in the Bible

And God said, "Let the earth produce green plants [that will] bear seed--fruit trees bearing fruit {in which there is seed}--according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.

Verse ConceptsAccording To Its KindVegetationTreesSprouting PlantsLand ProducingSproutingGod SpeakingHerbsreproductionReproduction, After Kind

And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Verse ConceptsBearingStrictnessPunishments

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Calling And LifeLiving TogetherPeople Providing

And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryGod's Mercy, Example OfNamed WivesWifeHaving A Babyservanthoodbabysarahmistress

So Sarai told Abram, "You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her."

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSleep, PhysicalDivine RestraintsReasons For BarrennessChildren Are A BlessingGod HinderingSexual Union IntendedObeying Peoplesarah

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

Verse ConceptsBirths ForetoldGod Naming PeopleGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Pays Attention

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamBearingThe Eternal CovenantGod Naming PeopleGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Promise Of A Babysarah

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

Verse ConceptsGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Time AppointedAbrahamic Covenantcovenantsarah

And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

Verse ConceptsWhy Do Others Do This?The Promise Of A Babysarah

And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, 'Why is this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really -- I bear -- and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.'

Verse ConceptsAll Things Being PossibleGod, Power OfGod's OmnipotencePower, Of GodArriving On TimePossibilities For GodEasy For GodPossible For GodThe Time Appointedimpossible

peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who are in its midst?

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDestruction Of CitiesNot SparingNumbers Of Righteous People

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could bear children,

Verse ConceptsdiseasesAnswered PrayerPraying For SinnersPraying For Others

Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveDepression, SymptomsLove, And The WorldFear, Of DeathNot Seeing PeopleSoliloquyFear Of DeathOthers MourningDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Motherdistance

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Verse ConceptsEight People

And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins are in her womb;

Verse ConceptsTwinsWomb

And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear.

Verse ConceptsCessationShowing Forth His PraisePeople With Apt Nameschildbearing

When Rachel saw that she could not bear children to Jacob, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, "Give me children--if not, I will die!"

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenJealousyPolygamySistersSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfAnger Of Man, CausePossibility Of DeathThose Jealous Of People

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

Verse ConceptsKneelingMaidsMarital SexKneesMarital Sex Between

And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesCessationGiving In Marriage

When the flocks mated in front of the branches, they would bear offspring that were striped, speckled, or spotted.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingAnimal ReproductionPolesBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteColor

What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Verse ConceptsCompensationLossOppression, Nature OfShepherds, As OccupationsAnimals Torn To PiecesDay Or Night

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialPeople ProvidingWealthy Peoplepossessions

Only bear a remembrance with thee of me when it goes well with thee, and deal kindly, I pray thee, with me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house;

Verse ConceptsRemembering PeoplePeople Releasing Othersjail

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Verse ConceptsSafetyEternal Evil

And he commandeth him who is over his house, saying, 'Fill the bags of the men with food, as they are able to bear, and put the money of each in the mouth of his bag;

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

Verse ConceptsGuaranteeSafetyEternal Evil

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

Verse ConceptsNot With People

And they speak unto him all the words of Joseph, which he hath spoken unto them, and he seeth the waggons which Joseph hath sent to bear him away, and live doth the spirit of Jacob their father;

Verse ConceptsRevival, Personalrevival

And Jacob riseth from Beer-Sheba, and the sons of Israel bear away Jacob their father, And their infants, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh hath sent to bear him,

Verse ConceptsCartsImmigrants

And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

Verse ConceptsSubjectionThose At EaseForced LabourGood Qualities

and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre.

Verse ConceptsempiresCavesTombsCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahCaves Used As Graves

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!”

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

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