sarah

     

Sarah (Hebrew: שָׂרָה, Stanard Sara Tiberian Śārāh ; Arabic: سارة, Sārah ; "a woman of high rank") is the wife of Abraham as described in the Hebrew Bible (the Book of Genesis) and the Quran.

Trivia about sarah

  • Hebrew for "princess", it's the first name of the actress who plays Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • She conceived and bore Abraham a son, Isaac, in his old age
  • In the 1986 Newbery Medal winner by Patricia MacLachlan, this title character was "Plain and Tall"
  • Vaughan,Polley,Bernhardt
  • When told she was going to have a child by Abraham, she "laughed within herself"
  • God said this elderly mother of Isaac "shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her"
  • In the Bible there was a heck of a generation gap between her & her son Isaac; she was 91 when she bore him
  • She laughed when told she was going to have a child, but Isaac was born a year later when she was about 91
  • Married to Abraham, she became the "Mother of Nations" when she was 90 years old
  • 1986: Her, "Plain and Tall"
  • According to the Bible, she was not only Abraham's wife, she was also his half-sister
  • Fearing he'd be killed by jealous men, Abraham falsely said he was this woman's brother
  • In Genesis she posed as her husband's sister when they traveled to Egypt
  • Hagar was this woman's maidservant
  • God told Abraham that he would bless this wife "and she shall be a mother of nations"
  • After this wife's death, Abraham married Keturah
  • Isaac's mom, she's the woman most often mentioned by name in the Bible
  • While barren, she gave her Egyptian maid Hagar to Abraham to bear his children

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