Words the Bible translates as conceive
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- sullambanōσυλλαμβάνωto conceive: to become pregnant with a child
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- to seize: to lay hold of and capture a person or a catch
- to help: to take hold alongside someone and share their work
- zaraזָרַעto yield or produce seed, and so for a woman to conceive
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- to sow: to scatter seed on prepared ground so that a crop will grow
- harahהָרָהto conceive: to become pregnant, the very start of carrying a child
- katabolēκαταβολήthe depositing of seed: the laying down of seed that begins new life, the reproductive image behind the phrase "conceive" at Hebrews 11:11
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- a founding: the laying down of something as its base or beginning, used in the New Testament only in the set phrase "the foundation of the world," a fixed term for creation
- yaḥamיָחַםto come into heat: to be gripped by the drive to mate, and so to conceive
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