Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
KJV
Erant autem ambo senes, provectæque ætatis, et desierant Saræ fieri muliebria.
Vulgate
Ἀβραὰμ δὲ καὶ Σάρρα πρεσβύτεροι προβεβηκότες ἡμερῶν· ἐξέλειπεν δὲ Σάρρᾳ γίνεσθαι τὰ γυναίκια.
LXX
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
ASV
וְ/אַבְרָהָ֤ם וְ/שָׂרָה֙ זְקֵנִ֔ים בָּאִ֖ים בַּ/יָּמִ֑ים חָדַל֙ לִ/הְי֣וֹת לְ/שָׂרָ֔ה אֹ֖רַח כַּ/נָּשִֽׁים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶחְדָּ֑ל
'chdl
verb · 59×
אַבְרָהָ֖ם
'brhm
proper_noun · 174×
אֹ֣רַח
'rch
noun · 60×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
זִקְנֵ֣י
zqny
adjective · 179×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
שָׂרָ֖ה
shrh
proper_noun · 38×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 3 passages
§489Throughout the Old Covenant the mission of many holy women prepared for that of Mary. At the very beginning there was Eve; despite her disobedience, she receives the promise of a posterity that will be victorious over the evil one, as well as the promise that she will be the mother of all the living.128 By virtue of this promise, Sarah conceives a son in spite of her old age.12…
§706Against all human hope, God promises descendants to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy Spirit.68 In Abraham's progeny all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This progeny will be Christ himself,69 in whom the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will "gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad."70 God commits himself by his own solemn o…
§2571Because Abraham believed in God and walked in his presence and in covenant with him,10 The patriarch is ready to welcome a mysterious Guest into his tent. Abraham's remarkable hospitality at Mamre foreshadows the annunciation of the true Son of the promise.11 After that, once God had confided his plan, Abraham's heart is attuned to his Lord's compassion for men and he dares to …
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 1:1 — Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
- Gen 17:17 — Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
- Gen 21:7 — And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
- Gen 24:1 — And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
- Gen 31:35 — And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
- Heb 11:11 — Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
- Heb 11:11 — Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
- Isa 51:2 — Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
- Josh 13:1 — Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
- 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.
- Rom 4:18 — Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
- Rom 4:19 — And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: