1 Samuel 1:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

and, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb.

Cross References

Genesis 30:2

Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Genesis 45:22

To each and all of them he gave festal garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five festal garments.

Genesis 20:18

For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 16:1

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;

Genesis 43:34

Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

Deuteronomy 21:15

“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

Genesis 11:30

Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.