Go
Articles on

Genesis 11

More on:

+
Sarai

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
barren.
Gen. 15:2‑3• 2And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
 3And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. (Gen. 15:2‑3)
;
Gen. 16:1‑2• 1Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
 2And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. (Gen. 16:1‑2)
;
Gen. 18:11‑12• 11Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
 12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? (Gen. 18:11‑12)
;
Gen. 21:1‑2• 1And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
 2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. (Gen. 21:1‑2)
;
Gen. 25:21• 21And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. (Gen. 25:21)
;
Gen. 29:31• 31And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. (Gen. 29:31)
;
Gen. 30:1‑2• 1And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
 2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? (Gen. 30:1‑2)
;
Judg. 13:2• 2And 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)
;
1 Sam. 1:2• 2And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. (1 Sam. 1:2)
;
Psa. 113:9• 9He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord. (Psa. 113:9)
;
Luke 1:7,36• 7And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
 36And, 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. (Luke 1:7,36)
• But it is said here that Sarai was barren; she had no child. And this remained a painful fact for many years. Yet was she destined, after long patience of faith, checkered by some impatience of unbelief to bear Abram's heir, the child of promise. In Isaac should his seed be called, type of the “Child born” and of the “Son given” in Whose name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess, yea, a type of Him even received from the dead in figure. (“Genesis 11:29-30” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
30
And Sarai was barren: she had no child.

W. Kelly Translation

+
30
And Sarah was barren; she [had] no child.