# רֶחֶם (rechem) Israeli respelling: re-chem. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H7358. 25 Old Testament occurrences. the womb King James renderings: matrix, womb. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rechem-h7358 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/18) — For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife. - [Genesis 29:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/31) — And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. - [Genesis 30:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/22) — And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. - [Exodus 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/2) — Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. - [Exodus 13:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/12) — That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males… - [Exodus 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Exodus 34:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/19) — All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. - [Numbers 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 among the ch… - [Numbers 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/8/16) — For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of a… - [Numbers 12:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Numbers 18:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/15) — Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: neverthel… - [1 Samuel 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/1/5) — But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. - [1 Samuel 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/1/6) — And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. - [Job 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/11) — Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? - [Job 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/18) — Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! - [Job 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/20) — The womb 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/15) — Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? - [Job 38:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/8) — Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? - [Psalms 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/10) — I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly. - [Psalms 58:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/3) — The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. - [Psalms 110:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/110/3) — Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy you… - [Jeremiah 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/5) — Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophe… - [Jeremiah 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/17) — Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. - [Jeremiah 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/18) — Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? - [Hosea 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/14) — Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.