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title: הָרָה — pregnant · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הָרָה (2030), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: pregnant. BDB 1906: adj.f. pregnant. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הָרָה

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«הָרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pregnant** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 16 times · **Key:** 2030 · **BDB:** הָרָה²

### Glosses

\[will.be\].pregnant (3); \[am\].pregnant (2); \[was\].pregnant (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pregnant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2030/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.f. pregnant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2030/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.f. pregnant—;abs. ה׳ Gn 16:11 + 10 times; cstr. הֲרַת Je 20:17; pl. cstr. הָרוֹת Am 1:13; sf. הָרוֹתֶיהָ 2 K 15:16; הָרֹתֵיהֶם 2 K 8:12;—pregnant, as attrib., אִשָּׁה ה׳ Ex 21:22; as pred. Gn 38:24 (לִזְנוּנִים), v 25 (לְאִישׁ), 1 S 4:19 2 S 11:5 Is 7:14 (+ וְיֹלֶדֶת); in phr. הִנָּךְ הָרָה וְיֹלַדְתְּ Gn 16:11 (on resemblance to Is 7:14 cf. PetersHbr Apr. 1885, 243; Apr. 1886, 175), Ju 13:5, 7; = subst. pregnant women, women with child Am 1:13 2 K 8:12; 15:16 Je 31:8, and, in sim., Is 26:17; once of womb וְרַחְמָהּ הֲרַת עוֹלָם Je 20:17.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הָרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2030/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 11:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.5/)

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וַתַּ֖הַר הָֽאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתִּשְׁלַח֙ וַתַּגֵּ֣ד לְדָוִ֔ד וַתֹּ֖אמֶר הָרָ֥ה אָנֹֽכִי׃

*Word for word:* and she.conceived the woman and she.sent and she.told to David and she.said \[am\].pregnant I

*JPS 1917:* And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said: 'I am with child.'

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[Isaiah 26:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.17/)

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כְּמ֤וֹ הָרָה֙ תַּקְרִ֣יב לָלֶ֔דֶת תָּחִ֥יל תִּזְעַ֖ק בַּחֲבָלֶ֑יהָ כֵּ֛ן הָיִ֥ינוּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* like a.pregnant.\[woman\] \[who\].she.brings.near to give.birth she.is.in.labor she.cries.out in labor-pains her so we.were from before you O.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* 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 at Thy presence, O LORD.

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