Genesis 16:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had a maidservant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׂרַי֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת אַבְרָ֔ם לֹ֥א יָלְדָ֖ה ל֑וֹ וְלָ֛הּ שִׁפְחָ֥ה מִצְרִ֖ית וּשְׁמָ֥הּ הָגָֽר׃

Transliteration

And Saray 'eshet 'Abram not yaledah to-him, and-to-her shifchah mitsrit and-shemah Hagar.

Grammar Details

• *Saray*: proper noun, feminine singular - Sarai
• *'eshet*: construct state feminine singular - wife of
• *'Abram*: proper noun, masculine singular - Abram
• *lo'*: negative particle - not
• *yaledah*: verb, Qal perfect 3rd feminine singular - she bore/gave birth
• *lo*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to him
• *welah*: conjunction + preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and to her
• *shifchah*: noun, feminine singular - maidservant/female slave
• *mitsrit*: adjective, feminine singular - Egyptian
• *ushemah*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - and her name
• *Hagar*: proper noun, feminine singular - Hagar

Word Meanings

• *shifchah*: maidservant/female slave/handmaid
• *yaledah*: bore/gave birth/begot

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Sarai Abrams wyfe bare him no childerne. But she had an hand mayde an Egiptian whose name was Hagar.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children: but she had an handmayde an Egipcian, whose name was Agar,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Sarai Abrams wyfe bare hym no chyldren: but she had an handemayde an Egyptian, Hagar by name.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name `is' Hagar;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Birth of Ishmael Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

Referenced Verses

• Gal 4:24 : 24 These things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar.
• Gen 12:16 : 16 And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
• Gen 15:2-3 : 2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me You have given no offspring: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
• Gen 21:21 : 21 And he lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
• Gen 25:21 : 21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
• Judg 13:2 : 2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.
• Luke 1:7 : 7 They had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
• Luke 1:36 : 36 Now, indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.
• Gen 21:9-9 : 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
• Gen 21:12 : 12 But God said to Abraham, Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.
• Gen 11:30 : 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.