Sarai was barren; she did not have a child.
Terah took Abram his son and Lot, Haran’s son, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and he took them out of Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Isaac prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife because she was barren. Adonai answered his plea and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
Now Adonai saw that Leah was unloved, so he opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Halleluyah!
Behold, even your relative Elizabeth has conceived a son in her old age; and the one who was called barren is six months pregnant.
But they were childless, because Elizabeth was barren and both of them were elderly.
Now there was a certain man from Zorah, from a Danite clan, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren and bore no children.
He had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
but to Hannah he would give only one portion—even though he loved Hannah—for Adonai had closed her womb.
