Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. 2. (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens. 3. (a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid. 4. (a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

Multi-Version Concordance Sterile (3 Occurrences) Judges 13:2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear. (See NIV) Judges 13:3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son. (See NIV) 2 Kings 2:19 And the men of the city say unto Elisha, 'Lo, we pray thee, the site of the city 'is' good, as my lord seeth, and the waters 'are' bad, and the earth sterile.' (YLT)