Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Parallel translations
- KJV But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
- BSB But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
- NKJV But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
- NASB Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.
- NLT But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children.
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- Luke 1:36Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
- Gen 18:11–12Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
- Ps 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
- Judg 13:2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
- Gen 30:1–2When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
- Gen 15:2–3Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
- Luke 1:7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
- Gen 21:1–2Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
- 1 Sam 1:2He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
- Gen 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- Gen 25:21Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Gen 16:1–2Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
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