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# הָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2030

**pregnant** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pregnant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2030/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָרָה²: adj.f. pregnant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2030/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.f. pregnant—;abs. ה׳ Gn 16:11 + 10 times; cstr. הֲרַת Je 20:17; pl. cstr. הָרוֹת Am 1:13; sf. הָרוֹתֶיהָ 2 K 15:16; הָרֹתֵיהֶם 2 K 8:12;—pregnant, as attrib., אִשָּׁה ה׳ Ex 21:22; as pred. Gn 38:24 (לִזְנוּנִים), v 25 (לְאִישׁ), 1 S 4:19 2 S 11:5 Is 7:14 (+ וְיֹלֶדֶת); in phr. הִנָּךְ הָרָה וְיֹלַדְתְּ Gn 16:11 (on resemblance to Is 7:14 cf. PetersHbr Apr. 1885, 243; Apr. 1886, 175), Ju 13:5, 7; = subst. pregnant women, women with child Am 1:13 2 K 8:12; 15:16 Je 31:8, and, in sim., Is 26:17; once of womb וְרַחְמָהּ הֲרַת עוֹלָם Je 20:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[will be\] pregnant (3); \[am\] pregnant (2); \[was\] pregnant (2).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.5/#tree)

וַתַּ֖הַר הָֽאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתִּשְׁלַח֙ וַתַּגֵּ֣ד לְדָוִ֔ד וַתֹּ֖אמֶר הָרָ֥ה אָנֹֽכִי׃

*Word for word:* and she.conceived the woman and she.sent and she.told to David and she.said \[am\].pregnant I

*JPS 1917:* And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said: 'I am with child.'

[Isaiah 26:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.17/#tree)

כְּמ֤וֹ הָרָה֙ תַּקְרִ֣יב לָלֶ֔דֶת תָּחִ֥יל תִּזְעַ֖ק בַּחֲבָלֶ֑יהָ כֵּ֛ן הָיִ֥ינוּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* like a.pregnant.\[woman\] \[who\].she.brings.near to give.birth she.is.in.labor she.cries.out in labor-pains her so we.were from before you O.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been at Thy presence, O LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2030.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2030/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).