הָרָה

Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.

And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

The angel of the LORD proceeded:“Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son.And you shall name him Ishmael,for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

As a woman with child about to give birthwrithes and cries out in pain,so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”