hara · conceive

What it means

hara (הָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “conceive”.

Become pregnant, conceive; figuratively, conceive a plan.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be with child; or plot evil.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• she conceived ×18
• conceived ×15
• conceive ×3
• They conceive ×2
• We were pregnant ×1
• ancestors ×1
• became pregnant ×1
• becomes pregnant ×1
• conceiving ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×21
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Hosea×4

• Genesis 4:1

  Now the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have acquired a man with YHWH.”

• Genesis 4:17

  And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And he was building a city, and he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

• Genesis 16:4

  He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became of little account in her eyes.

• Genesis 16:5

  Then Sarai said to Abram, “The wrong done to me be on you! I myself gave my slave woman into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I became of little account in her eyes. May YHWH judge between me and you.”

• Genesis 19:36

  Thus both daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

• Genesis 21:2

  Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him.

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac pleaded with YHWH on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and YHWH granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because YHWH has seen my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 29:33

  She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because YHWH has heard that I am hated, he has given me this one too.” And she called his name Simeon.

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” That is why he called his name Levi.

• Genesis 29:35

  She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will give thanks to YHWH.” That is why she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

• Genesis 30:5

  Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:7

  Bilhah, Rachel’s slave woman, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:17

  Elohim heard Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken away my disgrace.”

• Genesis 38:3

  She conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.

• Genesis 38:4

  She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.

• Genesis 38:18

  He said, “What is the pledge that I shall give you?” She said, “Your seal, your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

• Genesis 49:26

  The blessings of your father have prevailed over the blessings of my ancestors, up to the bounds of the eternal hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of the one consecrated among his brothers.

• Exodus 2:2

  The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw him, that he was beautiful, she hid him three months.

• Numbers 11:12

  Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the nurse carries the nursing child, to the ground that you swore to their fathers’?

• Judges 13:3

  And the angel of YHWH appeared to the woman and said to her, “Look now, you are barren and have not borne children; but you will conceive and bear a son.

• 1 Samuel 1:20

  And it happened, at the turn of the days, that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Samuel: “Because I asked for him from YHWH.”

• 1 Samuel 2:21

  Indeed, YHWH attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew up with YHWH.

• 2 Samuel 11:5

  The woman conceived; and she sent and reported it to David, and said, “I am pregnant.”

• 2 Kings 4:17

  The woman conceived and bore a son at this appointed time, about this time next year, as Elisha had told her.

• 1 Chronicles 4:17

  And the son of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she conceived Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

• 1 Chronicles 7:23

  And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his house.

• Job 3:3

  “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

• Job 15:35

  They conceive suffering and give birth to wickedness, and their belly prepares deceit.”

• Psalms 7:14

  Look, he conceives wickedness, becomes pregnant with suffering, and gives birth to a lie.

• Song of Songs 3:4

  Scarcely had I passed from them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and I will not let him go until I have brought him into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

• Isaiah 8:3

  And I went near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. And YHWH said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

• Isaiah 26:18

  We were pregnant, we writhed; as it were we gave birth to wind. Acts of salvation we do not work for the earth, and the inhabitants of the world do not fall.

• Isaiah 33:11

  You conceive dry grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you.

• Isaiah 59:4

  There is no one who calls with righteousness, and no one who pleads his case with faithfulness; they trust in emptiness and speak falsehood; they conceive suffering and give birth to wickedness.

• Isaiah 59:13

  transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and rebellion, conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Hosea 1:3

  So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

• Hosea 1:6

  And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And he said to him: Call her name Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, but I will surely take them away.

And 3 more times.