Borne

Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:

My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.

Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.

“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.