Lexicon :: Strong's H7358 - reḥem

for the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

When the LORD saw that Leah was neglected, he opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

“Consecrate every firstborn male to me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and domestic animal; it is mine.”

“you are to present to the LORD every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the LORD’s.

“When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of humans and the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the LORD all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

“The firstborn male from every womb belongs to me, including all your male[fn][fn] livestock, the firstborn of cattle or sheep.

“See, I have taken the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to me,

“For they have been exclusively assigned to me from the Israelites. I have taken them for myself in place of all who come first from the womb, every Israelite firstborn.

“Please don’t let her be like a dead baby[fn] whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

“The firstborn of every living thing, human or animal, presented to the LORD belongs to you. But you must certainly redeem a human firstborn, and redeem the firstborn of an unclean animal.

But he gave a double[fn] portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the LORD had kept her from conceiving.

Why was I not stillborn;

why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

“Why did you bring me out of the womb?

I should have died and never been seen.

The womb forgets them;

worms feed on them;

they are remembered no more.

So injustice is broken like a tree.

Did not the one who made me in the womb also make them?

Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

Who enclosed the sea behind doors

when it burst from the womb,

I was given over to you at birth;[fn]

you have been my God from my mother’s womb.

The wicked go astray from the womb;

liars wander about from birth.

Your people will volunteer

on your day of battle.[fn]

In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,

the dew of your youth belongs to you.[fn]

I chose you before I formed you in the womb;

I set you apart before you were born.

I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

because he didn’t kill me in the womb

so that my mother might have been my grave,

her womb eternally pregnant.

Give them, LORD —

What should you give?

Give them a womb that miscarries

and breasts that are dry!