'Conceived' in the Bible
Again she conceived and gave birth to a [fourth] son, and she said, “Now I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah; then [for a time] she stopped bearing [children].
Bilhah, Rachel’s maid, conceived again and gave birth to a second son for Jacob.
God listened and answered [the prayer of] Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.
Then he set the branches which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated and conceived when they came to drink.
So the flocks mated and conceived by the branches, and the flocks gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted offspring.
And it happened at the time when the flock conceived that I looked up and saw in a dream that the rams which mated [with the female goats] were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Again she conceived and gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms as a nurse carries the nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season the next year, just as Elisha had said to her.
Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Beriah (on misfortune), because tragedy had come on his house.
“Let the day on which I was born perish,And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’
For they planned evil against You;They devised a [malevolent] plotAnd they will not succeed.
I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].
Pe.Your testimonies are wonderful;Therefore my soul keeps them.
“Scarcely had I passed themWhen I found him whom my soul loves.I held on to him and would not let him goUntil I had brought him to my mother’s house,And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”
So I approached [my wife] the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz [to remind the people of the prophecy];
“Flee, run far away! Dwell in the depths [of the desert],O inhabitants of Hazor,” says the Lord,“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has planned a course of action against youAnd devised a scheme against you.
Then Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-Ruhamah (not shown mercy), for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.
“For their mother has played the prostitute;She who conceived them has acted shamefully,For she said, ‘I will pursue my loversWho give me my food and my water,My wool and my flax, my oil and my [refreshing] drinks.’
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
And listen, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.
At the end of eight days, when He was to be circumcised, He was named Jesus, the name given [to Him] by the angel [Gabriel] before He was conceived in the womb.
And not only that, but this too: Rebekah conceived twin sons by one man [under the same circumstances], by our father Isaac;
Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.