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Sarah
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Sa'rah. (princess).
1. The wife, and half-sister, Genesis 20:12, of Abraham, and mother of Isaac. Her name is first introduced in Genesis 11:29, as Sarai. The change of her name from Sarai, my princess, (that is, Abraham's), to Sarah, princess, (for all the race), was made at the same time that Abram's name was changed to Abraham, - on the establishment of the covenant of circumcision between him and God. Sarah's history is, of course, that of Abraham. See Abraham. She died at Hebron at the age of 127 years, 28 years before her husband, and was buried by him, "in the cave of the field of Machpelah," Genesis 23:19. (B.C. 1860). She is referred to, in the New Testament, as a type of conjugal obedience in 1 Peter 3:6, and as one of the types of faith in Hebrews 11:11.
2. Sarah, the daughter of Asher. Numbers 26:46.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Sarah'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/s/sarah.html. 1901.
