Bible Dictionary: Fertility

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.

Greek

735. Artemis -- Artemis, the name of the Gr. goddess of the hunt
... ar'-tem-is) Short Definition: the Persian or Ephesian Artemis Definition: Artemis,
a goddess, worshipped principally at Ephesus, typifying fertility (she had ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to 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 moves on the earth.
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Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
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Leviticus 18:22
You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
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Romans 1:26-27
For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
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Strong's Hebrew

2462. Chelbah -- a city in Asher
... Helbah. Feminine of cheleb; fertility: Chelbah, a place in Palestine -- Helbah.
see HEBREW cheleb. 2461, 2462. Chelbah. 2463 . Strong's Numbers.
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8082b. shaman -- a fat or fertile place
... Word Origin from shamen Definition a fat or fertile place NASB Word Usage fatness
(1), fertility (1), plenteous (1). 8082a, 8082b. shaman. 8083 . ...
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Library

The River of Life
... when God in very deed dwells among men, into this figure of a river pouring out
from beneath the Temple-door, and spreading life and fertility wherever its ...
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Afraid of Giants
... in verse 18, with the land, and immediately going on to the numbers and power of
the inhabitants; then harking back again, in verse 19, to the fertility of the ...
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Jesus Restoreth Sight to Bartimaeus
... The site of Jericho is still an oasis in the surrounding desert, but neither its
fertility nor its dimensions bear comparison with those which it attained in ...
/.../the life of jesus christ for the young/jesus restoreth sight to bartimaeus.htm

Shiloah and Euphrates
... It suggests the blessed results of His reign under the image of the fertility,
freshness, and beauty which spring up wherever 'the river cometh.' That kingdom ...
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In Jericho and at Bethany - Jericho - a Guest with Zacchæus - the ...
... The water of these springs, distributed by aqueducts, gave, under a tropical sky,
unsurpassed fertility to the rich soil along the plain' of Jericho, which is ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxiv in jericho and.htm

Whether Judgment is Rendered Perverse by Being Usurped?
... xxii, 70] that just as "the soil gives proof of its fertility by producing useless
herbs before the useful seeds have grown, so this deed of Moses was sinful ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether judgment is rendered perverse.htm

The Seventh Book
... No one questions that the Aquitanians and the Nine Peoples [362] had the very marrow
of the Gallic provinces, rich in every sort of fertility, and not in ...
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Happy Pilgrims
... the Valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.' They, as it were, pour
their tears into the wells, and they become sources of refreshment and fertility ...
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The Judgment of Drunkards and Mockers
... I. The woe on Samaria (verses 1-6). Travellers are unanimous in their raptures over
the fertility and beauty of the valley in which Samaria stood, perched on ...
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A Revival Sermon
... One season, by reason of the abundant fertility, shall run into another. ... God
is about to send times of surprising fertility to his Church. ...
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Thesaurus

Fertility (1 Occurrence)
... or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources;
fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or ...
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Gennesaret (3 Occurrences)
... No trace of it remains. The plain of Gennesaret has been called, from its fertility
and beauty, "the Paradise of Galilee." It is now called el-Ghuweir. ...
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Agriculture
... Psalm 1:3; 65:10; Proverbs 21:1; Isaiah 30:25; 32:2, 20; Hosea 12:11), and the
appliances of careful cultivation and of manure increased its fertility to such ...
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Botany
... 3. Fertility and Climate in Modern and Ancient Palestine: A question of great interest
to Bible students is, How far has the fertility of the land altered in ...
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Land (19790 Occurrences)
... The soil is deep, rich loam, of amazing fertility. In the South it is watered by
the stream from Wady el-Chamam, the gorge that opens to the West of el-Mejdel. ...
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Genneseret
... The soil is deep, rich loam, of amazing fertility. In the South it is watered by
the stream from Wady el-Chamam, the gorge that opens to the West of el-Mejdel. ...
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Fatness (17 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness
of flesh. 2. (n.) Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. ...
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Asherah (40 Occurrences)
... In the West, however, Asherah and Ashtoreth came to be distinguished from one another,
Asherah being exclusively the goddess of fertility, whereas Ashtoreth ...
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Siddim (3 Occurrences)
... on the supposition of slight geological changes, may have been extremely fertile
in ancient times; while there are many indications of such fertility in the ...
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Dew (35 Occurrences)
... Dew is a source of great fertility (Genesis 27:28; Deuteronomy 33:13; Zechariah
8:12), and its withdrawal is regarded as a curse from God (2 Samuel 1:21; 1 ...
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Bible Concordance

Fertility (1 Occurrence)

Genesis 27:39 Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place be:
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Subtopics

Fertility

Related Terms

Gennesaret (3 Occurrences)

Agriculture

Botany

Land (19790 Occurrences)

Genneseret

Fatness (17 Occurrences)

Asherah (40 Occurrences)

Siddim (3 Occurrences)

Dew (35 Occurrences)