'Womb' in the Bible

And the Lord said to her:Two nations are in your womb;two people will come from you and be separated.One people will be stronger than the other,and the older will serve the younger.

When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

by the God of your father who helps you,and by the Almighty who blesses youwith blessings of the heavens above,blessings of the deep that lies below,and blessings of the breasts and the womb.

“Consecrate every firstborn male to Me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and domestic animal; it is Mine.”

you are to present to the Lord every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the Lord’s.

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the Lord all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

“The firstborn male from every womb belongs to Me, including all your male livestock, the firstborn of cattle or sheep.

“See, I have taken the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to Me,

For they have been exclusively assigned to Me from the Israelites. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, every Israelite firstborn.

Please don’t let her be like a dead baby whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

saying:Naked I came from my mother’s womb,and naked I will leave this life.The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.Praise the name of Yahweh.

For that night did not shutthe doors of my mother’s womb,and hide sorrow from my eyes.

Why was I not stillborn;why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

“Why did You bring me out of the womb?I should have died and never been seen.

I wish I had never existedbut had been carried from the womb to the grave.

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;their womb prepares deception.

The womb forgets them;worms feed on them;they are remembered no more.So injustice is broken like a tree.

Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

Who enclosed the sea behind doorswhen it burst from the womb,

Whose womb did the ice come from?Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

You took me from the womb,making me secure while at my mother’s breast.

I was given over to You at birth;You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

The wicked go astray from the womb;liars err from birth.

I have leaned on You from birth;You took me from my mother’s womb.My praise is always about You.

Your people will volunteeron Your day of battle.In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,the dew of Your youth belongs to You.

For it was You who created my inward parts;You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Sheol; a childless womb;earth, which is never satisfied with water;and fire, which never says, “Enough!”

What should I say, my son?What, son of my womb?What, son of my vows?

As he came from his mother’s womb, so he will go again, naked as he came; he will take nothing for his efforts that he can carry in his hands.

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,or how bones develop in the womb of a pregnant woman,so you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

This is what the Lord, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says:I am Yahweh, who made everything;who stretched out the heavens by Myself;who alone spread out the earth;

“Listen to Me, house of Jacob,all the remnant of the house of Israel,who have been sustained from the womb,carried along since birth.

Coastlands, listen to me;distant peoples, pay attention.The Lord called me before I was born.He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.

And now, says the Lord,who formed me from the womb to be His Servant,to bring Jacob back to Himso that Israel might be gathered to Him;for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,and my God is my strength—

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,or lack compassion for the child of her womb?Even if these forget,yet I will not forget you.

“Will I bring a baby to the point of birthand not deliver it?”says the Lord;“or will I who deliver, close the womb?”says your God.

I chose you before I formed you in the womb;I set you apart before you were born.I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

because he didn’t kill me in the wombso that my mother might have been my grave,her womb eternally pregnant.

Why did I come out of the wombto see only struggle and sorrow,to end my life in shame?

Give them, Lord—What should You give?Give them a womb that miscarriesand breasts that are dry!

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,and as an adult he wrestled with God.