στεῖρα
barren woman
Where this word appears
Every passage where στεῖρα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 11:30 στεῖρα And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
- Genesis 25:21 στεῖρα And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebecca his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebecca conceived in her womb.
- Genesis 29:31 στεῖρα And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- Exodus 23:26 στεῖρα There shall not be on your land one that is impotent or barren. I will surely fulfil the number of your days.
- Deuteronomy 7:14 στεῖρα You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, or among your cattle.
- Judges 13:2 στεῖρα And there was a man of Saraa, of the family of the kindred of Dan, and his name was Manoe, and his wife was barren, and bore not.
- Judges 13:3 στεῖρα And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, you are barren and have not born; yet you shall conceive a son.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 στεῖρα They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.
- Job 24:21 στεῖρα For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.
- Psalms 112:9 στεῖρα who settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children.
- Isaiah 54:1 στεῖρα Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that do not travail: for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband: for the Lord has said,
- Isaiah 66:9 στεῖρα But I have raised this expectation, yet you have not remembered me, says the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? says your God.
About this word
About this word
στεῖρα (steîra), “barren woman,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 12 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →