139 occurrences

'Birth' in the Bible

Later, Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have given birth to a male child the LORD."

Verse ConceptsAdam, PriviledgesAbel and CainOne FleshPregnancyDesign Of MarriageSexual LoveMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTrue GainThe Promise Of A BabyBabies Sinful From BirthAdam and evewomanhood

Later, Cain had sexual relations with his wife. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain founded a city and named it after his son Enoch.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyCityBuildingPregnancyCitiesCivilizationBuildersMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenPeople Naming ThingsSame Sex MarriageBuilding Relationships

Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the ancestor of those who live in tents and herd livestock.

Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsSpiritual FathersThose Who Kept Stock

Later on, after Adam had sexual relations with his wife, she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, because "God granted me another offspring to replace Abel, since Cain murdered him."

Verse ConceptsAdam, After The FallAbelAbel and CainMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenExchange Of IndividualsKilling Named IndividualsPeople With Apt NamesAdam and evepremarital

The Nephilim were on the earth at that time (and also immediately afterward), when those divine beings were having sexual relations with those human women, who gave birth to children for them. These children became the heroes and legendary figures of ancient times.

Verse ConceptsGiantsAntediluviansBefore The FloodWarriorsMarital SexAngels As Sons Of GodMarital Sex BetweenAngels Interacting With PeoplePeople Have HonourInterracial MarriageSame Sex Marriageheroes

Haran died during his father's lifetime in the land of his birth, that is, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Verse Conceptsnatural DeathDeath Of A Father

So Sarai told Abram, "You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her."

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSleep, PhysicalDivine RestraintsReasons For BarrennessChildren Are A BlessingGod HinderingSexual Union IntendedObeying Peoplesarah

"Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son," the angel of the LORD continued to say to her. "You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of misery.

Verse ConceptsBirths ForetoldGod Naming PeopleGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Pays Attention

Hagar eventually gave birth to Abram's son. Abram named his son whom Hagar bore Ishmael.

Verse ConceptsGod Pays AttentionPeople With Apt Names

Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.

Verse ConceptsThe Age At Fatherhood

Generation after generation, every male among you is to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfLess Than A Year OldBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGroups Of Slaves

Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."

Verse ConceptsForeskinsBreaking The Covenant

But God replied, "No, but your wife Sarah will give birth to your son, and you are to name him Isaac. I'll confirm my covenant with him as an eternal covenant for his descendants.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamBearingThe Eternal CovenantGod Naming PeopleGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Promise Of A Babysarah

Now as to Isaac, I'll confirm my covenant with him, to whom Sarah will give birth as your son at this time next year."

Verse ConceptsGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Time AppointedAbrahamic Covenantcovenantsarah

The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab, and he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn DaughtersRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-ammi, and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.

Verse ConceptsRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

She also said, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband's old age!"

Verse ConceptsNursesOld Age, Attainment OfHope For Old PeopleImpossible For PeopleAgesarah

Now after these things somebody told Abraham, "Look, Milcah has given birth to sons for your brother Nahor.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And Victory

Also, his concubine Reumah gave birth to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

My master's wife Sarah gave birth to my master's son in her old age, and Abraham has given him everything that belongs to him.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersHope For Old People

After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob told Laban, "Send me off so that I can go back to my place and country.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landPeople Sending People

"When Laban said, "The speckled ones will be your wages,' then all the flock gave birth to speckled ones. Then when he said, "The streaked ones will be your wages,' all the flock gave birth to streaked offspring.

Verse ConceptsBlemished CreaturesBlack And White

Later, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesHard Tasks

Later, when it was time for Tamar to give birth, she was carrying twins in her womb!

Verse ConceptsWombTwins

While she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, so the midwife grabbed it and tied something scarlet around his hand, observing, "This one came out first."

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBeing FirstMidwifeStretching OutFirstborn SonsCordsRed Cordsstories

As it was, he withdrew his hand, and then his brother was born. Amazed, the midwife cried out loud, "What's this? A breach birth?" So that boy was named Perez.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening The WombPeople With Apt Names

Meanwhile, the brothers were seated in front of Joseph in birth order, from firstborn to youngest. The men stared at one another in astonishment.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, CharaceristicsFirstbornBrothersBirthrights

"When you help the Hebrew women give birth," he said, "watch them as they deliver. If it's a son, kill him; but if it's a daughter, let her live."

Verse ConceptsInfantsSuffering, Nature OfInfanticideKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesBirthKilling Israelites

"Hebrew women aren't like Egyptian women," the midwives replied to Pharaoh. "They're so healthy that they give birth before the midwives arrive to help them."

Verse ConceptsVigourNot Like PeopleBirthWomen WorkingHaving A Babychildbearing

Later, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a beautiful child, and hid him for three months.

Verse ConceptsTwo To Four MonthsPeople Hiding PeopleWomen's Beauty

Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, because he used to say, "I became an alien in a foreign land."

Verse ConceptsSojourningReckoned As ForeignersPeople With Apt Names

six of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the other stone. Engrave them according to their order of birth.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

"If she gives birth to a female, then she is to remain unclean for two weeks, just like her menstruation. She is to remain in purification for 66 days due to her blood loss.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfWeeksTen Or More DaysTwo To Four MonthsBleedingPurifying OneselfHaving A Babychildbearing

Did I conceive this people or give birth to them, so that you would tell me to carry them near my heart like a wet nurse carries a suckling baby to the land that you promised to their forefathers?

Verse ConceptsArmsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfNursesThe Promise Of A Baby

Now Kohath had a son named Amram. Amram's wife was Levi's daughter Jochebed, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She gave birth to Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

One day the angel of the LORD presented himself to the woman. "Hello!" he greeted her. "Though you are infertile at this time and haven't borne a child, you're about to conceive and give birth to a son.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordCommunicationBirths ForetoldInfertility

because surprise! you're going to conceive and give birth to a son! Don't put a razor to his head, because the young man will be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from inside the womb. He will begin to deliver Israel from domination by the Philistines."

Verse ConceptsBaldness, UnnaturalBaldnessHairsHeadsDeliverersConceptionSeparated To GodFrom The Womb

He told me, "Surprise! you're going to conceive and give birth to a son!' and as for you, "Be sure that you don't drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don't eat anything unclean,' "because the young man will be a Nazirite dedicated to God from inside the womb' until the day he dies."

Verse ConceptsAlcohol ConsumptionStrong DrinkPollution ForbiddenFrom The WombDrinking No WineAlcoholic BeveragesHaving A Babybeeralcoholism

Later on, the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew strong and the LORD blessed him.

Verse ConceptsBecoming An AdultChildren, Good Examples OfGrowing UpBlessed By GodBabies Being A Blessingempowerment

Those who had an abundance of bread now hire themselves out, and those who were hungry hunger no more. While the barren woman gives birth to seven children, she who had many children languishes.

Verse ConceptsHiringSeven ChildrenPlenty For The Poor

The LORD took note of Hannah, and she became pregnant and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel continued to grow, and the LORD was constantly with him.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtGrowing UpThree ChildrenConceptionGod Visiting

Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and ready to give birth. When she heard the report about the capture of the Ark of God and that her father-in-law and husband were dead, she crouched down and gave birth, because her labor pains suddenly began.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

As she was about to die, the women standing around her said, "Don't be afraid! You've given birth to a son." But she did not respond or pay attention.

Verse ConceptsResponseOthers Not AnsweringDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A MotherDespairHaving A Babychildbearing

One woman said, "Your majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.

Three days later, this woman also gave birth. We lived alone there. There was nobody else with us in the house. It was just the two of us.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The Week

"This is what Hezekiah says: "Today is a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy, because children are about to be born, but there is no strength to bring them to birth. Perhaps the LORD your God will take note of everything that Rab-shakeh has said, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to taunt the living God, and then he will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the survivors who remain.'"

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfGod, Living And Self sustainingRemnantRidicule, Objects OfSurvivors FavouredPray For UsWill God Pay Attention?

Later, Ephraim had marital relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son, whom he named Beriah, because his household had been visited with disaster.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTragedy

For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with deception."

Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NatureMischief

Whose womb brings forth the ice? Who gives birth to frost out of an empty sky,

Verse ConceptsFrostCold Weather

"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?

Verse ConceptsWild GoatWhen?Deer Etc.Deer

Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,

Verse ConceptsWhen?

when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs?

Verse ConceptsCrouching

But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyMalice Of The Wicked

I was dependent on you from birth; from my mother's womb you have been my God.

Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationFrom The WombFrom BirthYou Are Our GodScoffers

The voice of the LORD causes deer to give birth, and strips the forest bare. In his Temple all of them shout, "Glory!"

Verse ConceptsForestsThings StrippedDeer

When there were no ocean depths, I brought them to birth at a time when there were no springs.

Before the mountains were shaped, before there were hills, I was bringing them to birth.

Verse ConceptsHills

No, my son! No, my son whom I conceived! No, my son to whom I gave birth!

Verse ConceptsWombWomen's Strength

That land is blessed whose king is of noble birth, whose princes feast at the right time, for strength, and not to become drunk.

Verse ConceptsBad LeadershipAlcoholBeing A LeaderDigestionRight Time For PeopleFamily Strength

but my dove, my perfect one, is unique. She's unique to her mother, she's pure to the one who gave birth to her. Young women see her and call her blessed, queens and mistresses praise her.

Verse ConceptsUnique IndividualsPraising Specific PeopleMan's FavouriteBeing Unique

Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? Under theapple tree I awakened you. There your mother had gone into labor with you; there she went into labor and gave birth to you.

Verse ConceptsApplesOther Supporting

Be ashamed, Sidon, because the sea has spoken, the fortress of the sea: I have neither been in labor nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women."

Verse ConceptsConfidence In God, Produces BoldnessBirth Not Being Possible

Just as a pregnant woman writhes and cries out during her labor when she is about to give birth, so were we because of you, LORD.

Verse ConceptsWomen's Strengthchildbearing

We were pregnant, writhing in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not won your victory on earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world been born."

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelWindBirth Not Being PossibleHaving A Babydeliverancechildbearing

You conceive dried grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Verse ConceptsChaffStrawLight As ChaffFire Of Evil

"Here is what Hezekiah says," they told him. "This day is a day of trouble, rebuke, and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no energy to deliver them.

Verse ConceptsBirth Not Being PossibleNo Strength To CopeStress And Hard TimesWomen's StrengthWeaknessStaying Strong During Hard TimesGetting Through Hard Timesenergybabystrengh

"I have certainly stayed silent for a long time; I've kept still and held myself back. Now, like a woman giving birth, I'll cry out. All of a sudden I'll gasp and pant.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Suffering OfSilenceLabour PainsGod Being Silent

Woe to the one who says to his father, "What are you begetting?' or to a woman, "To what are you giving birth?'!"

Verse ConceptsRespect, For Human BeingsConceptionBirthSolar EclipseFather And Daughter Relationshipsfatherhoodparenthood

"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all you remnant of the house of Israel, who have been upheld from before your birth, and who have been carried from the womb.

Verse ConceptsFrom The WombFrom BirthPay Attention To God!

And neither had you heard, nor did you understand, nor did you open your ear long ago. Indeed, I knew that you would act very deceitfully, and they would call you a rebel from birth.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelTreacheryFrom Birth

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. For when he was only one person I called him, but I made him fruitful and made him many.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfBlessings, To AbrahamGod's Activity In IsraelCalling, Of IndividualsGod Multipling PeopleOnly One Personsarah

No one brings a lawsuit fairly, and no one goes to law honestly; they have relied on empty arguments and they tell lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

Verse ConceptsemptinessUnreliabilityCharacter Of Wicked

"Before she goes into labor she gives birth; before her pains come upon her she has delivered a son.

Verse ConceptsChildbirthBeforechildbearing

who say to a tree, "You are my father,' and to a stone, "You gave birth to me.' They have turned their back to me, but not their faces. In the time of their trouble, they'll say, "Rise up! Deliver us!'"

Verse ConceptsAnimismSpiritual FathersSpiritual MothersTurning One's BackSave Us!Dads

I heard a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like one giving birth to her firstborn, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for air, stretching out her hand: "Woe is me! I'm about to faint in front of killers!"

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfVoicesLabour PainsHaving No BreathFaintingJudged As Murderers

What will you say when the LORD appoints over you as your head those whom you taught to be your allies? Pain will seize you like that seizing a woman about to give birth, will it not?

Verse ConceptsAliancesLabour PainsPeople Teaching

Even the doe in the field gives birth and then abandons her young because there is no grass.

Verse ConceptsDeersGrassYoung AnimalAnimals ForsakingDeer Etc.Deer

"The woman who gave birth to seven will grow faint, her life will expire. Her sun will set while it's still day. She will be disgraced and humiliated. I'll kill the rest of them with swords in the presence of their enemies," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationThe SunSeven ChildrenLife Cut ShortGod Will Cause Defeat

How terrible for me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of strife and contention for the whole land! I've neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHealthInterestLonelinessSadnessSelf PitySuicideCynicismNever Being BornRegretting BirthBorrowingLending And BorrowingUngodly CursingFighting One AnotherConflictlent

For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters who are born in this place, about their mothers who give birth to them, and about their fathers who father them in this land:

Verse ConceptsMothers And SonsMotherhoodFathers And Daughters

Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.

Verse ConceptsBirthdaysRegretting BirthCursing Thingslentcurses

"Don't cry for the dead or grieve for them. Weep bitterly for the one going away, because he won't return again nor see the land of his birth.

Verse ConceptsSorrowNo return from exileDo Not MournExile In Prospectlosing a loved oneDeath Of A MotherLoss Of A Loved OneLosing Someoneanniversary

You who live in Lebanon, who build your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, pain like that of a woman giving birth.

Verse ConceptsCedarLabour Pains

I'll hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land where you were not born, and there you will die.

Verse ConceptsQueensThrowing PeopleNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearExile In ProspectDeath Of A Mother

Ask about this and think about it Can a man give birth to a child? Why then do I see every strong man with his hands on his thighs like a woman giving birth, and all their faces have turned pale?

Verse ConceptsLabour PainsBirth Not Being PossibleHaving A Babybaby

They repeatedly stumble and fall. They say to each other, "Get up! Let's go back to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressor's sword.'

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingSaying Repeatedly

Damascus will become weak. She will turn to flee, but panic will seize her. Distress and anguish will take hold of her like that of a woman giving birth.

Verse ConceptsLabour PainsUnable To Do Other Thingsdamascus

your mother will be greatly devastated, she who gave birth to you will be ashamed. She will become the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Verse ConceptsBabylonWildernessDry PlacesShame Will ComeDeserts Used Figuratively

You are to declare, "This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: "Your birth place was the territory that belonged to the Canaanites. Your father was an Ammonite and your mother was a Hittite.

Verse ConceptsAncestorsAmoritesMothers, As A SymbolSpiritual FathersSpiritual MothersPeople Beginning

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Deliver (542 instances)
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Root Form
Definition
Usage
עיט 
`ayit 
Usage: 8

בּכרה בּכורה 
B@kowrah 
Usage: 15

בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

בּרשׁע 
Birsha` 
Usage: 1

ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

מכרה מכוּרה 
M@kuwrah 
Usage: 3

משׁבּר 
Mishber 
Usage: 3

נפל נפל 
Nephel 
Usage: 3

עוף 
`owph 
Usage: 71

צפּר צפּור 
Tsippowr 
Usage: 40

צפר 
Ts@phar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

שׁבר 
Shabar 
Usage: 148

תּלדה תּולדה 
Towl@dah 
Usage: 39

γενέσια 
Genesia 
Usage: 2

γέννησις 
Gennesis 
Usage: 2

ὄρνεον 
Orneon 
Usage: 3

πετεινόν 
Peteinon 
Usage: 4

ὠδίνω 
Odino 
Usage: 3

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