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# עָקָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6135

**barren** — used 12 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

barren [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6135/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָקָר: adj. barren [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6135/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. barren;—ע׳ of male Dt 7:14, עֲקָרָה of female v 14 (mankind and beasts), Ex 23:26 (E; female); elsewhere of women Gn 11:30; 25:21; 29:31 (all J), Ju 13:2, 3; 1 S 2:5; Jb 24:21 ψ 113:9 (עֲקֶרֶת cstr.); of personif. Zion Is 54:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 11:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.30/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֥י שָׂרַ֖י עֲקָרָ֑ה אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ וָלָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and she.was Sarai barren there.\[belonged\].not to her a.child

*JPS 1917:* And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

[Job 24:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.21/#tree)

רֹעֶ֣ה עֲ֭קָרָה לֹ֣א תֵלֵ֑ד וְ֝אַלְמָנָ֗ה לֹ֣א יְיֵטִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].feeding.on a.barren.\[woman\] \[who\].not she.gives.birth and a.widow not he.does.good.to

*JPS 1917:* He devoureth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6135.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6135/): 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).