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Lexicon :: Strong's H2029 - hārâ

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הָרָה
Transliteration
hārâ
Pronunciation
haw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 515

Strong’s Definitions

הָרָה hârâh, haw-raw'; a primitive root; to be (or become) pregnant, conceive (literally or figuratively):—been, be with child, conceive, progenitor.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x

The KJV translates Strong's H2029 in the following manner: conceive (38x), woman with child (2x), with child (2x), again (1x), bare (1x), progenitors (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x
The KJV translates Strong's H2029 in the following manner: conceive (38x), woman with child (2x), with child (2x), again (1x), bare (1x), progenitors (1x).

  1. to conceive, become pregnant, bear, be with child, be conceived, progenitor

    1. (Qal) to conceive, become pregnant

    2. (Pual) to be conceived

    3. (Poel) to conceive, contrive, devise

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
הָרָה hârâh, haw-raw'; a primitive root; to be (or become) pregnant, conceive (literally or figuratively):—been, be with child, conceive, progenitor.
STRONGS H2029: Abbreviations
† I. הָרָה verb conceive, become pregnant (Assyrian êrû compare DlPr 21 Muss. ArnoltHebraica. Oct. 1890, 67 JägerBAS i. 473); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular וְהָרָה consecutive Psalm 7:15 [Psalm 7:14]; 3rd person feminine singular הָרָ֑תָה Genesis 16:4, 5; 2nd person feminine singular וְהָרִית consecutive Judges 13:3; 1st person singular הָרִיתִי Numbers 11:12; 1st person plural הָרִינוּ Isaiah 26:18; Imperfect וַתַּ֫הַר Genesis 4:1 + 26 times (וַתַּ֑הַר Genesis 16:4); 3rd person feminine plural וַתַּהֲרֶיןָ Genesis 19:36; 2nd person masculine plural תַּהֲרוּ Isaiah 33:11; Infinitive absolute הָרֹה Job 15:35, הָרוֺ Isaiah 59:4 compare also Isaiah 59:13 below Po. below; Participle feminine suffix הוֺרָתִי Songs 3:4; הוֺרָתָם Hosea 2:7; —
1. literally conceive, become pregnant Genesis 16:4 (twice in verse); Genesis 16:5; Genesis 19:36; Genesis 25:21; Genesis 38:18 (all J), 2 Samuel 11:5 (agency of man expressed by מִן Genesis 19:36, לְ Genesis 38:18); usually in phrase וַתַּהַר וַתֵּלֶד Genesis 4:1, 17; Genesis 21:2; Genesis 29:32, 33, 34, 35; Genesis 30:5, 7 (all J), Genesis 30:17; Genesis 30:19; Genesis 30:23 (all E), Genesis 38:3, 4 (both J), Exodus 2:2 (E), 1 Samuel 1:20; 1 Samuel 2:21; 2 Kings 4:17; 1 Chronicles 7:23; Isaiah 8:3; Hosea 1:3, 6, 8, probably also 1 Chronicles 4:17 ותהר אֶתמִֿרְיָם [ותלד] compare Be; further Judges 13:3, and compare Moses' question הֶאָנֹכִי הָרִיתִי אֵת כָּלהָֿעָם הַזֶּה אִםאָֿנֹכִי יְלִדְתִּיהוּ Numbers 11:12 have I conceived all this people, or have I brought it forth? Participle feminine || אֵם Hosea 2:7; Songs 3:4.
2. metaphor. הָרִינוּ חַלְנוּ כְמוֺ יָלַדְנוּ רוּחַ Isaiah 26:18 of anxious and disappointed waiting; תַּהֲרוּ חֲשַׁשׁ תֵּלְדוּ קַשׁ Isaiah 33:11, of futile planning, compare Che; elsewhere of evil, mischief וְהָרָה עָמָל וְיָלַד שָׁ֑קֶר Psalm 7:15 (subject wicked man), compare Job 15:35; Isaiah 59:4, so also Isaiah 59:13, read הָרוֺ (Infinitive absolute) compare Di.
Pu. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֹרָה נָּ֑בֶר Job 3:3 a man hath been conceived (Böii. p. 103 BaNB 77 regard as Qal passive).
Po. Infinitive absolute, conceive, contrive, devise הֹרוֺ וְהֹגוֺ מִלֵּב דִּבְרֵי שָׁ֑קֶר Isaiah 59:13, but read rather הָרוֺ וְהָגוֺ
Qal Infinitive absolute see above (Bal.c. explains MT as Qal Infinitive passive). — On הוֺרַי Genesis 49:26 see הוֺר and הַר 1. c.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:1; 4:1; 4:17; 16:4; 16:4; 16:4; 16:5; 16:5; 19:36; 19:36; 19:36; 21:2; 25:21; 29:32; 29:33; 29:34; 29:35; 30:5; 30:7; 30:17; 30:19; 30:23; 38:3; 38:4; 38:18; 38:18; 49:26

Exodus

2:2

Numbers

11:12; 11:12

Judges

13:3; 13:3

1 Samuel

1:20; 2:21

2 Samuel

11:5

2 Kings

4:17

1 Chronicles

4:17; 7:23

Job

3:3; 15:35; 15:35

Psalms

7:14; 7:15

Proverbs

21

Song of Songs

3:4; 3:4

Isaiah

8:3; 26:18; 26:18; 33:11; 33:11; 59:4; 59:4; 59:13; 59:13; 59:13

Hosea

1:3; 1:6; 1:8; 2:7; 2:7

H2029

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2029 matches the Hebrew הָרָה (hārâ),
which occurs 43 times in 42 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten[fn] a man with the help of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:4 - And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:36 - Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2 - And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:21 - And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben,[fn] for she said, “Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:33 - She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:34 - Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:35 - And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she called his name Judah.[fn] Then she ceased bearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:23 - She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:3 - and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:4 - She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:18 - He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26 - The blessings of your father
are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents,
up to the bounties of the everlasting hills.[fn]
May they be on the head of Joseph,
and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:2 - The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:3 - And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:20 - And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the LORD.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:21 - Indeed the LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:5 - And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17 - But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:17 - The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married;[fn] and she conceived and bore[fn] Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:23 - And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:3 - “Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A man is conceived.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
and their womb prepares deceit.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:3 - And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:18 - we were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:11 - You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;
your breath is a fire that will consume you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - No one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:13 - transgressing, and denying the LORD,
and turning back from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:3 - So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 - She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, “Call her name No Mercy,[fn] for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:8 - When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:5 - For their mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
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