n.
flourished early 2nd millennium BC
In the Hebrew scriptures, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
She was childless until age 90. In Genesis , God promised Abraham that she would be "a mother of nations," but Sarah refused to believe and had already given her maidservant Hagar to Abraham, with whom he fathered Ishmael. Nevertheless, Sarah did conceive in her old age and give birth to Abraham's son Isaac.