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Genesis 21

Gen. 21:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
a visited
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
Sarah
Sarah (Hebrew #8283)
Sarah, Abraham's wife
KJV usage: Sarah.
Pronounce: saw-raw'
Origin: the same as 8282
as he had said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
did
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Sarah
Sarah (Hebrew #8283)
Sarah, Abraham's wife
KJV usage: Sarah.
Pronounce: saw-raw'
Origin: the same as 8282
asc he had spoken
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
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1 Sam. 2:21• 21{i}So Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah.{/i} (1 Sam. 2:21)
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Luke 1:68• 68Blessed be [the] Lord the God of Israel; because he hath visited and wrought redemption for his people, (Luke 1:68)
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Gen. 17:19• 19{i}And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.{/i} (Gen. 17:19)
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Gen. 18:10,14• 10{i}And he said,{/i} I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. {i}and Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.{/i}
 14Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. (Gen. 18:10,14)

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Sarah; Sarai; Sara

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-5:  Isaac is born, and circumcised.
6-7:  Sarah's joy.
8:  Isaac is weaned.
9-14:  Hagar and Ishmael are cast forth.
15-16:  Hagar in distress.
17-22:  The angel relieves and comforts her.
23-34:  Abimelech's covenant with Abraham at Beer-sheba.
visited.
Gen. 50:24• 24{i}And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into the land that he swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.{/i} (Gen. 50:24)
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Ex. 3:16• 16Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, Visiting I have visited you and [seen] that which is done to you in Egypt; (Ex. 3:16)
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Ex. 4:31• 31{i}And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.{/i} (Ex. 4:31)
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Ex. 20:5• 5{i}thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me,{/i} (Ex. 20:5)
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Ruth 1:6• 6{i}And she arose, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the fields of Moab; for she had heard in the fields of Moab how that Jehovah had visited his people to give them bread.{/i} (Ruth 1:6)
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1 Sam. 2:21• 21{i}So Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah.{/i} (1 Sam. 2:21)
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Psa. 106:4• 4Remember me, O Jehovah, in the favour of thy people,{HR}Visit me with (in) thy salvation, (Psa. 106:4)
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Luke 1:68• 68Blessed be [the] Lord the God of Israel; because he hath visited and wrought redemption for his people, (Luke 1:68)
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Luke 19:44• 44and level thee with the ground and thy children in thee; and not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:44)
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Rom. 4:17‑20• 17(even as it is written, “A father of many nations I have made thee”) before God whom he believed, that quickeneth the dead and calleth the things that be not as being;
 18who against hope believed in hope, in order to his becoming father of many nations according to that which was spoken, “So shall be thy seed.”
 19And not being weak in faith, he considered [not] his own body now dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,
 20yet as to the promise of God wavered not through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, (Rom. 4:17‑20)
Sarah as.
Gen. 17:19• 19{i}And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.{/i} (Gen. 17:19)
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Gen. 18:10,14• 10{i}And he said,{/i} I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. {i}and Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.{/i}
 14Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. (Gen. 18:10,14)
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Psa. 12:6• 6The words of Jehovah [are] pure words,{HR}Silver refined in a crucible of earth, sevenfold purified. (Psa. 12:6)
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Matt. 24:35• 35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (Matt. 24:35)
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Gal. 4:23,28• 23But he that was of the maidservant was born according to flesh, and he that was of the freewoman through the promise.
 28But we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. (Gal. 4:23,28)
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Titus 1:2• 2upon hope of life eternal which God that cannot lie promised before the times of the ages, (Titus 1:2)
• The Lord must “visit,” and the Lord must “do,” and faith must wait, and nature must be still; yea, must be entirely set aside as a dead, worthless thing, and then the divine glory can shine out, and faith find in that outshining all its rich and sweet reward. (“Genesis 21” by C.H. Mackintosh)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.