Lexicon :: Strong's G730 - arrēn

So God created man in his own image;

he created him in the image of God;

he created them male and female.

he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and called them mankind.[fn]

“You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

“You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him.

Those that entered, male and female of every creature, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.

“If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased ​— ​every male among the members of Abraham’s household ​— ​and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

All the men who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised.

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful,[fn] she hid him for three months.

“You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats.

“If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to bring an unblemished male. He will bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting so that he[fn] may be accepted by the LORD.

“But if his offering for a burnt offering is from the flock, from sheep or goats, he is to present an unblemished male.

“If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present one without blemish before the LORD.

“If his offering as a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he is to present a male or female without blemish.

“or someone informs him about the sin he has committed, he is to bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

“Any male among the priests may eat it; it is especially holy.

“Any male among the priests may eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place; it is especially holy.

“Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity.

“He will present them before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf; she will be clean from her discharge of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or female.

“a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean.”

“You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

“If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable act. They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

“must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.

“if the assessment concerns a male from twenty to sixty years old, your assessment is fifty silver shekels measured by the standard sanctuary shekel.

“If the person is from five to twenty years old, your assessment for a male is twenty shekels and for a female ten shekels.

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral families,[fn] counting the names of every male one by one.

The LORD told Moses, “Register every firstborn male of the Israelites one month old or more, and list their names.

“So now, kill every male among the dependents and kill every woman who has gone to bed with a man,

So the allotment was for the rest of Manasseh’s descendants by their clans, for the sons of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, by their clans.

“This is what you should do: Completely destroy every male, as well as every woman who has gone to bed with a man.”

May the day I was born perish,

and the night that said,

“A boy is conceived.”

The dead do not live;

departed spirits do not rise up.

Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them;

you have wiped out all memory of them.

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;

before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

May the man be cursed

who brought the news to my father, saying,

“A male child is born to you,”

bringing him great joy.

Ask and see

whether a male can give birth.

Why then do I see every man

with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor

and every face turned pale?

“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Armies, “and my name will be feared among the nations.