Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
childless
Usage: stripped, childless, bare of children
Ariri means “childless” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6185 עֲרִירִי (`ariyriy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ariyriy (ar-e-ree') adj. 1. bare, i.e. destitute (of children) [from H6209] It has 4 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include childless. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`ariyriy (ar-e-ree') adj. 1. bare, i.e. destitute (of children) [from H6209] KJV: childless. Root(s): H6209
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childless
Usage: stripped, childless, bare of children
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ariyriy, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6185.
And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6185, grouped by book.
Ariri (Strong's H6185) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "childless". `ariyriy (ar-e-ree') adj. 1. bare, i.e. destitute (of children) [from H6209]
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's H6185 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6185 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as childless. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.