Sarah
Sarah / Sarai
2157 BC – 2030 BC
The wife of Abraham, originally named Sarai and renamed Sarah by God at the same time Abram became Abraham (Genesis 17:15). She is described as barren until God opened her womb (Genesis 11:30; 21:1-2). She bore Isaac when Abraham was 100 years old (Genesis 21:1-5). Genesis 17:17 gives her age as 90 when the promise was reaffirmed, from which her birth year is estimated. She died at 127 years in Kirjath-arba (Hebron) — the only woman whose age at death is explicitly recorded in the Hebrew scriptures (Genesis 23:1-2).
Traditional biblical chronology (Masoretic text) — estimated
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