שָׂרַי
sa.ray
“Sarai”
Definition
Sarai, the wife of Abraham
from H8269 (שַׂר); dominative;
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Grammar & Morphology
Proper Noun (Feminine)
N:N-F-P
Proper Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
שָׂרַי appears 13 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
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