The angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them. Tobias 6:8
The angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them. Tobias 6:8
(In the Bible it is always the women who are barren, never the men.)
But Sarai was barren; she had no child. Genesis 11:30, 16:1-2
Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. Genesis 25:21
Rachel was barren. Genesis 29:31
There was a certain man ... whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren. Judges 13:2
Elkannah ...had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah.... The Lord had shut up her womb. 1 Samuel 1:1-5
They had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren. Luke 1:7
