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Sarah [a] (born Sarai) [b] is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions.While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister [1] of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac.
Sarah is mentioned alongside Abraham; Abraham is described as "the rock from which you [the Israelites] were hewn" and Sarah is described as "the hole of the pit from which you were dug", [7] the latter being a reference to her maternal womb. Abraham was called when he was alone i.e. childless. [8] Cross reference: Ezekiel 33:24
Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897. Isaac blessing his son, as painted by Giotto di Bondone Jacob Wrestling with the Angel by Eugène Delacroix The patriarchs ( Hebrew : אבות ʾAvot , "fathers") of the Bible , when narrowly defined, are Abraham , his son Isaac , and Isaac's son Jacob , also named ...
On the ground, Abraham reminisces about meeting with three visitors and the Lord renaming Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah, promising him a child named Isaac. Arriving at Moriah, Abraham takes Isaac with him to the mountain. Isaac asks Abraham where the lamb is, to which Abraham responds of the Lord God's provision.
Abraham is known as the patriarch of the Israelite people through Isaac, the son born to him and Sarah in their old age and the patriarch of Arabs through his son Ishmael, born to Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant. Although Abraham's forefathers were from southern Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq) [1] according to the biblical ...
Abraham [a] (originally Abram) [b] is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [7] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; [c] [8] and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic ...
The first episode appears in Genesis 12:10–20.Abram (later called Abraham) moves to ancient Egypt in order to evade a famine.Because his wife, Sarai (later called Sarah), is very beautiful, Abram asks her to say that she is only his sister lest the Egyptians kill him so that they can take her.
A midrash deduced from the words "Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her" in Genesis 23:2 that Abraham came directly from Mount Moriah and the binding of Isaac. The midrash told that at the very moment in Genesis 22:11–12 that the angel of the Lord stayed Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, the Satan appeared to Sarah in the guise ...