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Barrenness

Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

59. Barrenness

Andermatt, Christiane takes series of baths hoping to cure childlessness. [Fr. Lit.: Mont-Oriol, Magill I, 618–620]
Barren Ground novel portraying a woman’s emotional sterility and her harsh labor on a farm. [Am. Lit.: Barren Ground ]
brown symbol of unfruitfulness. [Color Symbolism: Jobes, 357]
Death Valley sterile, arid basin in Nevada and California. [Geography: EB, III: 417]
Elizabeth Virgin’s kinswoman, blessed with pregnancy as old woman. [N.T.: Luke 1:5–25]
Empty Quarter vast desert in the Arabian peninsula. [Geography: EB, VIII: 703]
Hannah Elkanah’s barren wife; prays to Lord who grants her a son, Samuel. [O.T.: I Samuel 1:6]
Sahara vast north African desert. [Geography: EB, VIII: 768]
Sarah Abraham’s wife; unable to bear children. [O.T.: Genesis 11:30]
Waste Land, The portrays sterility and chaos of the contemporary world. [Br. Lit.: “The Waste Land” in Hart, 899–900]

Bashfulness (See TIMIDITY .)

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barrenness

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barrenness It was the worst of misfortunes for a Hebrew or Jewish wife not to bear children (1 Sam. 1: 10 ff.). So the prediction that women who were childless will be thankful is an indication of how appalling will be the disaster to fall on Jerusalem (Luke 23: 29). The city was captured and destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE after the Jewish rebellion.

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