18 occurrences

'Nurse' in the Bible

And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Verse ConceptsNursesOld Age, Attainment OfHope For Old PeopleImpossible For PeopleAgesarah

Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningMarriage, The BrideNamed SistersPeople Sending People

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfNursesTreesOaksMourning Death

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?”

Verse ConceptsNursesNamed Sisters

Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Verse ConceptsNursesbaby

Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?

Verse ConceptsArmsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfNursesThe Promise Of A Baby

Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her lap, and became his nurse.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the report of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAccidentsFeetdisabilitiesLamenessNursesSuffering, Causes OfPeople TumblingHurt And Betrayalsaul

So his servants said to him, “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestWarmingThose Looking For Peopleteenager

The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not cohabit with her.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of Sex

When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he 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, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and placed him and his nurse in the bedroom. So they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsPrincesSistersStealingKept Alive By MenNamed SistersPrivate Rooms

But Jehoshabeath the king’s daughter took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and placed him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah so that she would not put him to death.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsNursesSistersNamed Sisters

That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts,That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom.”

Verse ConceptsSatisfactionAfflictions, Consolation DuringmomsMotherhoodbreasts

Even jackals offer the breast,They nurse their young;But the daughter of my people has become cruelLike ostriches in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersNursesBirds, Types Of BirdsAnimals SucklingOstrichesStrictnessDeserts Used Figuratively

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersWombHarming Pregnant WomenMotherhood

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersWombWoeHarming Pregnant WomenSigns Of The TimesMothersEnd Of DaysMotherhoodStaying Strong During Hard TimesHaving A BabyThe Rapturebabychildbearing

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

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