HebrewH8297Proper Noun (Feminine)

שָׂרַי

sa.ray

13Occurrences
H8297Strong's #
Proper Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Sarai, the wife of Abraham

from H8269 (שַׂר); dominative;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; daughter of: Terah (H8646); sister of: Abraham (H0085), Nahor (H5152H) and Haran (H2039); married to Abraham (H0085); mother of: Isaac (H3327); also called Sarai at ; Another name of sa.rah (*שָׂרָה *"Sarah" H8283) § Sarai = "princess" original name of Sarah the wife of Abram or Abraham

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

N:N-F-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

שָׂרַי appears 13 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
13

Key Passages

Genesis 11:29BSB

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.

Genesis 11:31BSB

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.

Genesis 12:11BSB

As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,

Genesis 16:1BSB

Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

Genesis 16:3BSB

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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