Genesis 18:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַבְרָהָ֤ם וְשָׂרָה֙ זְקֵנִ֔ים בָּאִ֖ים בַּיָּמִ֑ים חָדַל֙ לִהְי֣וֹת לְשָׂרָ֔ה אֹ֖רַח כַּנָּשִֽׁים׃

Transliteration

And-ʾAḇrāhām and-Śārâ zəqēnîm bāʾîm in-the-yāmîm ḥāḏal to-lihyôṯ to-Śārâ ʾōraḥ like-the-nāšîm.

Grammar Details

• *zəqēnîm*: adjective, masculine plural - old/aged
• *bāʾîm*: qal participle, masculine plural - coming/advanced
• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - days
• *ḥāḏal*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - ceased
• *lihyôṯ*: qal infinitive construct - to be
• *ʾōraḥ*: noun, masculine singular - way/manner/custom
• *nāšîm*: noun, feminine plural - women

Word Meanings

• *bāʾîm bayāmîm*: advanced in days/well along in years
• *ʾōraḥ kannāšîm*: way of women/menstruation/female biological cycle

Referenced Verses

• Gen 17:17 : 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
• Heb 11:11-12 : 11 By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past {G2540} age, since she counted him faithful who had promised: 12 wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the {G2281} sea-shore, innumerable.
• Heb 11:19 : 19 accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.
• Gen 17:24 : 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
• Gen 31:35 : 35 And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.
• Lev 15:19 : 19 And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
• Luke 1:7 : 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were [now] well stricken in years.
• Luke 1:18 : 18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
• Luke 1:36 : 36 And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren.
• Rom 4:18-21 : 18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And without being weakened in faith he considered {G3756} his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb; 20 yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.