Bible Dictionary: Childlessness

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The state of being childless.

Topical Bible Verses

Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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Job 2:10
But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
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Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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1 Corinthians 7:1-40
Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Psalm 127:3-5
See, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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Strong's Hebrew

7923. shikkulim -- bereavement, childlessness
... 7922, 7923. shikkulim. 7924 . bereavement, childlessness. Transliteration:
shikkulim Phonetic Spelling: (shik-koo-leem') Short Definition: bereaved. ...
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Library

The Birth of John Foretold. Chs. 1:5-25
... This trial was peculiarly great among a people who regarded childlessness as a sign
of divine displeasure and it was even more distressing to the hearts of the ...
/.../erdman/the gospel of luke an exposition/a the birth of john.htm

Against Publishing the Errors of the Brethren.
... On all sides they were bright and illustrious, and yet they all had barren wives,
and continued in childlessness until an advanced period. ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/against publishing the errors of.htm

The Birth of Mary the Holy Mother of God, and Very Glorious Mother ...
... 2. And his wife Anna [1562] mourned in two mournings, and lamented in two lamentations,
saying: I shall bewail my widowhood; I shall bewail my childlessness. ...
/.../unknown/the protevangelium of james/the birth of mary the.htm

The General Service to Two or Many Martyrs.
... What have the ungrateful people rewarded Thee with for all the good Thouhast done
unto them? And thou most lovingly takest care of my childlessness ! ...
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The Service Common to Two or Many Hierarchs.
... What have the ungrateful people rewarded Thee with for all the good Thouhast done
unto them, and Thou most lovingly takest care of my childlessness? ...
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The General Service to a Hiero-Confessor or Monk-Confessor.
... What have the ungrateful people rewarded Thee with for all the good Thou hast done
unto them? and Thou most lovingly takest care of my childlessness. ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xxv the general service.htm

Yet He Added, "But Such Shall have Tribulation of the Flesh...
... to those who choose marriage, in suspicions of jealousy of married life, in the
begetting and nurture of children, in fears and sorrows of childlessness. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/of holy virginity /section 16 yet he added.htm

God's Covenant with Abram
... The first effect of that great assurance is to deepen Abram's consciousness of the
strange contradiction to it apparently given by his childlessness. ...
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Aaron, his Office no Palliation of his Sin, 61.
... Canaan, the woman of, referred to, [54]154, [55]216. Childlessness not to
be regarded as retribution for sin, [56]238. Chrysostom. ...
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Electress Louisa
... If it pleased God to punish them and their country by childlessness, let them submit;
but never would he consent to break an oath he had sworn in God's sight. ...
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Thesaurus

Childlessness (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The state of being childless. Multi-Version
Concordance Childlessness (1 Occurrence). Isaiah 47:9 ...
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Childless (25 Occurrences)

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Virginity (12 Occurrences)
... The Old Testament lays extreme emphasis on chastity before marriage (Deuteronomy
22:21), but childlessness was so great a misfortune that death before marriage ...
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Naphtali (51 Occurrences)
... By her artifice she had obtained children, the offspring of her maid ranking
as her own; and thus her reproach of childlessness was removed. ...
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Fasting (34 Occurrences)
... Hannah, who was greatly distressed on account of her childlessness, "wept, and did
not eat" (1 Samuel 1:7). Violent anger produces the same effect (1 Samuel 20 ...
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Relationships (1 Occurrence)
... To the Hebrew woman childlessness was considered the greatest of misfortunes
(1 Samuel 1:10, of Hannah; Genesis 30:23, of Rachel). ...
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Bitter (203 Occurrences)
... of servitude; the misfortunes of bereavement; (3) more subjectively, bitter and
bitterness describe emotions of sympathy;' the sorrow of childlessness and of ...
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Bitterness (37 Occurrences)
... of servitude; the misfortunes of bereavement; (3) more subjectively, bitter and
bitterness describe emotions of sympathy;' the sorrow of childlessness and of ...
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Childlike (3 Occurrences)

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Charms (10 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 47:9 And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day,
childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon ...
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Bible Concordance

Childlessness (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 47:9 And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.
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Subtopics

Childlessness

Childlessness: A Reproach

Related Terms

Childless (25 Occurrences)

Virginity (12 Occurrences)

Naphtali (51 Occurrences)

Fasting (34 Occurrences)

Relationships (1 Occurrence)

Bitter (203 Occurrences)

Bitterness (37 Occurrences)

Childlike (3 Occurrences)