'Womb' in the Bible

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

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

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

But then he drew back his hand, and his brother came out before him. She said, "How you have broken out of the womb!" So he was named Perez.

because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.

"Set apart to me every firstborn male -- the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, whether human or animal; it is mine."

then you must give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have -- the males will be the Lord's.

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.'

"Every firstborn of the womb belongs to me, even every firstborn of your cattle that is a male, whether ox or sheep.

"Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

For they are entirely given to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.

Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb!"

The firstborn of every womb which they present to the Lord, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!"

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow!

"Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother's breasts.

I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother's womb you have been my God.

I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother's womb. I praise you continually.

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother's womb.

Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

the grave, the barren womb, land that is not satisfied with water, and fire that never says, "Enough!"

O my son, O son of my womb, O son of my vows,

Just as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

This is what the Lord, the one who made you, says -- the one who formed you in the womb and helps you: "Don't be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen!

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: "I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.

"Before I formed you in your mother's womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother's womb my grave forever.

Why did I ever come forth from my mother's womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.

The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.