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Child-bearing definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHILD-BEARING, a. or ppr. [See Bear.] Bearing or producing children.
CHILD-BEARING, n. The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

child'-bar-ing: Only in 1Ti 2:15: "She shall be saved through her (m "the") child-bearing" (dia tes teknogonias). The reference is to the calling of woman as wife and mother, as her ordinary lot in life, and to the anxieties, pains and perils of maternity, as the culmination and representation of the penalties woman has incurred because of the Fall (Ge 3:16). "She shall be saved by keeping faithfully and simply to her allotted sphere as wife and mother" (Dummelow). The preposition dia is not used here instrumentally, as though child-bearing were a means of her salvation, but locally, as in 1Co 3:15, "saved so as through fire," where life is saved by rushing through the flames. The explanation by reference to the incarnation, with an appeal to Ga 4:4, favored by Ellicott and others, seems very mechanical.

H. E. Jacobs

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See childbirth.