2001 Translation

STEIRA, steira

Sounds Like: STAY-rah

Translations: barren, sterile, unfruitful, a barren woman

From the root: ΣΤΕΙΡΑ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes someone or something that is unable to produce offspring or fruit. It is often used to refer to a woman who cannot bear children, or metaphorically to something that is unproductive or unfruitful.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4723 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 98:5

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 13:2

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:34, 1:35

Codex Sinaiticus

• Luke — 1:7, 1:36

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 53:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:8

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 2:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 11:30, 25:21, 29:31
• Exodus — 23:26
• Deuteronomy — 7:14
• Judges — 13:2, 13:3
• 1 Samuel — 2:5
• Odes — 3:5
• Wisdom — 3:13
• Isaiah — 54:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 1:7, 1:36
• Galatians — 4:27

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΕΙΡΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΣΤΕΙΡΑΙ — barren, barren women, barren ones
• ΣΤΕΙΡΑΝ — barren, sterile, unfruitful, a barren woman, barren woman
• ΣΤΕΙΡΑΣ — of a barren woman, of a sterile woman

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