Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Sarai was barren. She had no child.
He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Behold, Elisheva your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
But they had no child, because Elisheva was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.