Genesis 11:30

World English Bible (2000)

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:2-3 : 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
  • Gen 16:1-2 : 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
  • Gen 18:11-12 : 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
  • Gen 21:1-2 : 1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die." 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
  • 1 Sam 1:2 : 2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
  • Luke 1:36 : 36 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 16:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

    3Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

    4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

  • Gen 11:29
    78%

    29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

  • Gen 18:11
    77%

    11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

  • Luke 1:7
    74%

    7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

  • Gen 11:31
    74%

    31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

  • Gen 17:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

    16I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

  • Gen 15:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

    3Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

  • Gen 21:2
    73%

    2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Gen 20:18
    73%

    18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Judg 13:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.

    3The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

  • Heb 11:11
    72%

    11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

  • Gal 4:27
    71%

    27For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

  • Gen 12:17
    71%

    17Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

  • Gen 24:36
    70%

    36Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 21:7
    70%

    7She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

  • Gen 11:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

    27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

  • Gen 20:2
    70%

    2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • Gen 18:13
    70%

    13Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

  • Gen 18:15
    69%

    15Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • Gen 20:12
    69%

    12Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

  • Gen 21:10
    69%

    10Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

  • Gen 16:6
    69%

    6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

  • Gen 25:21
    69%

    21Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

  • Gen 29:31
    68%

    31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 25:12
    68%

    12Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

  • Gen 22:20
    68%

    20It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

  • Gen 23:2
    68%

    2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.