Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
KJV
Igitur Sarai, uxor Abram, non genuerat liberos : sed habens ancillam ægyptiam nomine Agar,
Vulgate
Σάρα δὲ ἡ γυνὴ Ἀβρὰμ οὐκ ἔτικτεν αὐτῷ· ἦν δὲ αὐτῇ παιδίσκη Αἰγυπτία ᾗ ὄνομα Ἁγάρ.
LXX
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
ASV
וְ/שָׂרַי֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת אַבְרָ֔ם לֹ֥א יָלְדָ֖ה ל֑/וֹ וְ/לָ֛/הּ שִׁפְחָ֥ה מִצְרִ֖ית וּ/שְׁמָ֥/הּ הָגָֽר
Hebrew
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In this verse
In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַבְרָ֔ם
'brm
proper_noun · 61×
הָגָ֖ר
hgr
proper_noun · 12×
הוֹלִ֣יד
hvlyd
verb · 478×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
וֹ
v
noun · 848×
ךָ
k
noun · 63×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מִצְרַ֔יִם
mtsrym
noun · 76×
שָׂרַ֣י
shry
proper_noun · 17×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.
Cross-references
- Gal 4:24 — Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- Gen 11:30 — But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
- Gen 12:16 — And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
- Gen 15:2 — And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
- Gen 21:9 — And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
- Gen 21:9 — And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
- Gen 21:12 — And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy s
- Gen 21:21 — And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
- Gen 25:21 — And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Gen 29:24 — And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
- Judg 13:2 — And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
- Judg 13:2 — And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
- Luke 1:7 — And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
- Luke 1:7 — And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
- Luke 1:36 — And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.