Genesis 18:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well advanced in age, and 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well along in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in a; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

• 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.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Abraham and Sara were both olde and well stryken in age and it ceased to be with Sara after the maner as it is wyth wyves.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And Abraham and Sara were both olde, & well stryken in age: so that it wente nomore with Sara after ye maner of wemen:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  (Nowe Abraham and Sarah were old and striken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the maner of women)

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him;

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

Referenced Verses

• Gen 17:17 : 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
• Heb 11:11-12 : 11 Through faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.
• Heb 11:19 : 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
• Gen 17:24 : 24 And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
• Gen 31:35 : 35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before you; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the images.
• Lev 15:19 : 19 And if a woman has an issue, and her issue in her body is blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
• Luke 1:7 : 7 They had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
• Luke 1:18 : 18 Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is 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.
• Rom 4:18-21 : 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, So shall your descendants be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead, being about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. 21 And being fully convinced that what He had promised, He was able also to perform.