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Saraiשָׂרַיwasוַתְּהִיbarren;עֲקָרָהshe had noאֵין לָהּchild.וָלָד
Genesis 11:30
Study it in the app“Sarai was barren; she had no child.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 11:30, word by word
- Saraiשָׂרַיsaray
Sarai
Sarai, the name of Sarah before God changed it (Genesis 17:15).
Where else “saray” appears- wasתְּהִיtehi
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tehi” appears- barrenעֲקָרָהakara
barren
Barren: unable to have children.
Where else “akara” appears- childוָלָדvalad
child
Child, boy.
Where else “valad” appears
The context
29Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
30 · This verse (above)
31Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.
To study Genesis 11 in a group
1. What it says
What did the people in the land of Shinar say as they built their city and tower (vv. 3-4)?
2. What it means
Why did YHWH confuse their language and scatter them over the whole earth (vv. 6-9)?
3. How I live it
In what you are planning, what is for making a name for yourself, and what is for serving others?