Bible Verses About Barrenness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for barrenness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 31,112 votes, led by Genesis 25:21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Barrenness
Genesis 25:211,314 votes
And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Psalms 113:91,171 votes
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.
Deuteronomy 7:14884 votes
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
Exodus 23:26843 votes
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Isaiah 54:1840 votes
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
Galatians 4:27717 votes
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Genesis 11:30633 votes
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 29:31574 votes
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Luke 1:7555 votes
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
1 Samuel 2:5523 votes
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
Luke 23:29497 votes
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Psalms 128:3469 votes
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Luke 1:36452 votes
And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
1 Samuel 1:1-28447 votes
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
Job 39:6442 votes
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Genesis 30:1441 votes
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Joel 2:20436 votes
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Psalms 127:3-5432 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Hebrews 11:11402 votes
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Genesis 1:28364 votes
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Proverbs 30:16364 votes
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Judges 13:3359 votes
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
Genesis 30:22352 votes
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
Psalms 139:13341 votes
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Judges 13:2339 votes
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
What does the Bible say about barrenness?
Readers most often cite Genesis 25:21 on the subject of barrenness. Across 31,112 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 113:9, Deuteronomy 7:14, Exodus 23:26. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.