Occurrences
Rechem occurs 26 times in 25 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (3), Exodus (4), Numbers (4), 1 Samuel (2), Job (5), Psalms (3), Jeremiah (3), Hosea (1)
- Genesis 20:18 — For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs (רֶ֖חֶם) of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
- Genesis 29:31 — And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb (רַחְמָ֑הּ): but Rachel was barren.
- Genesis 30:22 — And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb (רַחְמָֽהּ).
- Exodus 13:2 — Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb (רֶ֙חֶם֙) among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
- Exodus 13:12 — That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix (רֶ֖חֶם), and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD’s.
- Exodus 13:15 — And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix (רֶ֙חֶם֙), being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
- Exodus 34:19 — All that openeth the matrix (רֶ֖חֶם) is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
- Numbers 3:12 — And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix (רֶ֖חֶם) among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
- Numbers 8:16 — For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb (רֶ֜חֶם), even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
- Numbers 12:12 — Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb (מֵרֶ֣חֶם).
- Numbers 18:15 — Every thing that openeth the matrix (רֶ֠חֶם) in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
- 1 Samuel 1:5 — But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb (רַחְמָֽהּ).
- 1 Samuel 1:6 — And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb (רַחְמָֽהּ).
- Job 3:11 — Why died I not from the womb (מֵרֶ֣חֶם)? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- Job 10:18 — Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb (מֵ֭רֶחֶם)? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
- Job 24:20 — The womb (רֶ֨חֶם) shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
- Job 31:15 — Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb (בָּרֶ֥חֶם)?
- Job 38:8 — Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb (מֵרֶ֥חֶם)?
- Psalms 22:10 — I was cast upon thee from the womb (מֵרָ֑חֶם): thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
- Psalms 58:3 — The wicked are estranged from the womb (מֵרָ֑חֶם): they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- Psalms 110:3 — Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb (מֵרֶ֣חֶם) of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
- Jeremiah 1:5 — Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb (מֵרֶ֖חֶם) I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
- Jeremiah 20:17 — Because he slew me not from the womb (מֵרָ֑חֶם); or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
- Jeremiah 20:17 — Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb (וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ) to be always great with me.
- Jeremiah 20:18 — Wherefore came I forth out of the womb (מֵרֶ֣חֶם) to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- Hosea 9:14 — Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb (רֶ֣חֶם) and dry breasts.