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Genesis 16:1
“Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שָׂרַיSâray · saw-rah'-ee
H8297 · Hebrew
H8297 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Sarai, the wife of Abraham
- Derivation
- from H8269 (שַׂר); dominative;
- KJV renderings
- Sarai.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- שָׂרַי֙ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 17 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 11:29Genesis 11:30Genesis 11:31Genesis 12:5Genesis 12:11
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׂרַי here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.