Who was Sarah in the Bible?
Sarah was the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac, who bore the long-promised son of laughter in her old age and is honored in the New Testament as a model of faith.
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.
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.
God renamed her Sarah, "princess," and the New Testament remembers her as a woman of faith and a mother of nations (Hebrews 11:11). Her story shows that God’s timing is not late and his promises do not fail.
Original BibleDawn answer · reviewed 2026-06. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy.