12 occurrences

'Nurse' in the Bible

And she said, "Who would announce to Abraham [that] Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son [to Abraham] in his old age."

Verse ConceptsNursesOld Age, Attainment OfHope For Old PeopleImpossible For PeopleAgesarah

So they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of Abraham and his men.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningMarriage, The BrideNamed SistersPeople Sending People

And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died. And she was buried below Bethel, under the oak. And its name was called Allon-Bacuth.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfNursesTreesOaksMourning Death

And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, "Shall I go and call for you a woman from the Hebrews [who is] nursing [so that] she will nurse the boy for you?"

Verse ConceptsNursesNamed Sisters

And the daughter of Pharaoh said, "Take this boy and nurse him for me, and I myself will give you wages, and the woman took the boy, and she nursed him.

Verse ConceptsNursesbaby

And Naomi took the child and she put him on her bosom and became his nurse.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

(Now Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who [was] crippled in the feet. He [was] five years old when the message of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse had picked him up and fled. It happened that as she [was] hurrying away to flee, he fell and became crippled. His name [was] Mephibosheth.)

Verse ConceptsCripplesAccidentsFeetdisabilitiesLamenessNursesSuffering, Causes OfPeople TumblingHurt And Betrayalsaul

When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! When I looked closely at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I had borne."

Verse ConceptsMorningNursesWho Is This?Not The OneDeath Of A Childsisterhood

But Jehosheba the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah took Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, and she stole him from among the sons of the king who were being put to death, [putting] him and his nurse in the inner bedroom. So they hid him from the presence of Athaliah, and he was not killed.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsPrincesSistersStealingKept Alive By MenNamed SistersPrivate Rooms

But Jehosheba the daughter of the king took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and kidnapped him away from the sons of the king who were to be put to death. And she put him and his nurse in a private bedroom. So Jehosheba the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from before Athaliah so that she did not put him to death.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsNursesSistersNamed Sisters

For behold, days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that did not give birth, and [the] breasts that did not nurse!'

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersChildlessnessJudgement To ComeWombAttitudes To BarrennessBarren WomenInfertilityKidsMotherhoodHaving A Babyluckbreasts

Bible Theasaurus

Entertain (11 instances)
Harbor (10 instances)
Harbour (6 instances)
Nurse (29 instances)
Suckle (4 instances)
Wet-Nurse (1 instance)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אמן 
'aman 
Usage: 108

ינק 
Yanaq 
Usage: 31

נוּק 
Nuwq 
Usage: 1

τροφός 
Trophos 
Usage: 1