Language
Genesis
3:16 -
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis
16:11 -
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Genesis
17:16 -
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
Genesis
25:22 -
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
Exodus
21:22 -
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Leviticus
12:2 -
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
Numbers
5:21 -
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Numbers
11:12 -
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Deuteronomy
28:57 -
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Ruth
4:13 -
So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
1 Samuel
1:27 -
For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
2 Kings
4:16 -
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
Psalms
22:9 -
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms
71:6 -
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Psalms
127:3 -
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Ecclesiastes
11:5 -
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Isaiah
13:8 -
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Isaiah
26:17 -
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Isaiah
49:15 -
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Isaiah
66:7 -
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Jeremiah
20:17 -
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Hosea
9:14 -
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Luke
1:24 -
And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
Luke
2:5 -
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
Galatians
4:19 -
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,