'Barren' in the Bible
Now when the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He made her able to bear children, but Rachel was barren.
No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren (childless, infertile) among you or among your cattle.
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was infertile and had no children.
And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are infertile and have no children, but you shall conceive and give birth to a son.
“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,But she who has many children withers away.
“Behold, let that night be barren [and empty];Let no joyful voice enter it.
“For the company of the godless is barren,And fire consumes the tents of bribery (wrong and injustice).
“He preys on the barren (childless) womanAnd does no good for the widow.
“They are gaunt with want and famine;They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
He makes the barren woman live in the houseAs a joyful mother of children.Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
The mouth of the righteous flows with [skillful and godly] wisdom,But the perverted tongue will be cut out.
Good understanding wins favor [from others],But the way of the unfaithful is hard [like barren, dry soil].
Sheol, and the barren womb,Earth that is never satisfied with water,And fire that never says, “It is enough.”
“Then [Zion], you will say in your heart,‘Who has borne me these children,Since I have been bereaved of my childrenAnd am barren, an exile and a wanderer?And who has reared these?Indeed, I was left alone;From where then did these children come?’”
“Shout for joy, O barren one, she who has not given birth;Break forth into joyful shouting and rejoice, she who has not gone into labor [with child]!For the [spiritual] sons of the desolate one will be more numerousThan the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.
“Behold, I am against you,O destroying mountain [conqueror of nations],Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the Lord,“I will stretch out My hand against you,And roll you down from the [rugged] cliffs,And will make you a burnt mountain (extinct volcano).
“But I will remove the northern army far away from you,And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,With its forward guard into the eastern sea (Dead Sea)And with its rear guard into the western sea (Mediterranean Sea).And its stench will arise and its foul odor of decay will come up [this is the fate of the northern army in the final day of the Lord],For He has done great things.”
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,“When the plowman shall overtake the one who gathers the harvest,And the one who treads the grapes [shall overtake] him who sows the seed [for the harvest continues until planting time];When the mountains will drip sweet wineAnd all the hills shall melt [that is, everything that was once barren will overflow with streams of blessing].
When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is an isolated place and the hour is already late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
But they were childless, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both far advanced in years.
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.
Now the day was ending, and the twelve [disciples] came and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging, and get provisions; because here we are in an isolated place.”
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have never nursed.’
For it is written [in the Scriptures],“Rejoice, o barren woman who has not given birth;Break forth into a [joyful] shout, you who are not in labor;For the desolate woman has many more childrenThan she who has a husband.”
If anyone thinks himself to be religious [scrupulously observant of the rituals of his faith], and does not control his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless (futile, barren).