Wife of Abraham, mother of Isaac · Patriarchs, c. 2000 BC
Sarah in the Bible
Also called Sarai
Sarah waits decades for the child she was promised, laughs at the announcement, and gives birth to Isaac in old age. Her insistence that Hagar and Ishmael be sent away shapes the family conflict that follows the covenant line.
Verses mentioning Sarah
43 occurrences across 36 verses in the King James Version.
- Genesis 23:19
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Read in context - Genesis 24:36
And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
Read in context - Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Read in context - Genesis 25:10
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Read in context - Genesis 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Read in context - Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Read in context - Numbers 26:46
And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
Read in context - Isaiah 51:2
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
Read in context - Romans 4:19
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
Read in context - Romans 9:9
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
Read in context - 1 Peter 3:6
Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. daughters: Gr. children
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