Sarah
Sarah was the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac, who bore the child of promise in her old age.
First called Sarai, she left Ur with her husband Abram and shared the long wait for the son God had promised. For decades she remained childless, and at one point gave her servant Hagar to Abraham in an attempt to secure an heir.
When three visitors told Abraham that Sarah would bear a son within the year, she laughed in disbelief — she was about ninety. Yet the promise held: Isaac, whose name means “he laughs,” was born to her, and her laughter of doubt turned to joy.
God renamed her Sarah, “princess,” and the New Testament remembers her as a woman of faith and a mother of nations.
Original BibleDawn profile. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy. Scripture quoted from the public-domain Berean Standard Bible.