hare · pregnant

What it means

hare (הָרֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pregnant”.

With child.

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. A woman expecting a child.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 16:11

  And the angel of YHWH said to her, “Look, you are pregnant and will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael, for YHWH has heard your affliction.

• Genesis 38:24

  About three months later Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has prostituted herself, and moreover, look, she is pregnant by prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

• Genesis 38:25

  As she was being brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these belong I am pregnant.” And she said, “Recognize, please, whose these are: the seal, the cord, and the staff.”

• Exodus 21:22

  When men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her children come out, but there is no harm, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband imposes on him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

• Judges 13:5

  For look, you will be pregnant and bear a son. And no razor shall come up on his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb, and he will begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

• Judges 13:7

  But he said to me, ‘Look, you will be pregnant and bear a son; so now do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, and do not eat any uncleanness, for the boy shall be a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb until the day of his death.’”

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And she heard the news that the ark of Elohim had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, and she crouched down and gave birth, for her pains came over her.

• 2 Samuel 11:5

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

• 2 Kings 8:12

  Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?” He said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortresses you will set on fire, their young men you will kill with the sword, their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open.”

• 2 Kings 15:16

  Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territories from Tirzah, because they did not open to him; and he struck it; all its pregnant women he ripped open.

• Isaiah 7:14

  Therefore Adonai himself will give you a sign: Look, the young woman is pregnant, and will bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel.

• Isaiah 26:17

  As a pregnant woman who draws near to giving birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we before you, YHWH.

• Jeremiah 20:17

  because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother would have been to me my grave, and her womb pregnant forever.

• Jeremiah 31:8

  Look, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the far ends of the earth; among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and the one giving birth together; a great assembly will return here.

• Hosea 13:16

  Samaria will be held guilty, for she has rebelled against her Elohim; by the sword they will fall; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

• Amos 1:13

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, in order to enlarge their territory.