Sara
(Hebrew: princess)
Stepsister and wife of Abraham (Genesis 12:20). Her original name, Sarai, was changed by God’s command (17). She gave birth to Isaac when she was 90 years of age, prevailed upon Abraham to expel Agar and Ismael (21) and died at the age of 127 in Hebron (23), where she was buried in the narrow cave of Macpelah.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Sara
Sara (Hebrew for “princess”; another form, Sarai, the signification of which is doubtful, is found in passages occurring before Genesis 17:15).
Sara was the wife of Abraham and also his step-sister (Genesis 12:15; 20:12). We do not find any other account of her parentage. When Abraham goes down to Egypt because of the famine, he induces Sara, who though sixty-five years of age is very beautiful, to say that she is his sister; whereupon she is taken to wife by the King of Egypt, who, however, restores her after a Divine admonition (Genesis 12). In a variant account (Genesis 20), she is represented as being taken in similar circumstances by Abimelech, King of Gerara, and restored likewise to Abraham through a Divine intervention. After having been barren till the age of ninety, Sara, in fulfilment of a Divine promise, gives birth to Isaac (Genesis 21:1-7). Later we find her through jealousy ill-treating her handmaiden Agar the Egyptian, who had borne a child to Abraham, and finally she forces that latter to drive away the bond-woman and her son Ishmael (Genesis 21). Sara lived to the age of one hundred and twenty-seven years, and at her death was buried in the cave of Macphelah in Hebron (Genesis 23). Isaiah 51:2 alludes to Sara as the mother of the chosen people; St. Peter praises her submission to her husband (1 Peter 3:6). Other New Testament references to Sara are in Romans 4:19; 9:9; Galatians 4:22-23; Hebrews 11:11.
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JAMES F. DRISCOLL Transcribed by Paul T. Crowley Dedicated to Mrs. Matilda Crowley
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIIICopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Sara
(), a Graecized form of the Heb. name Sarah (q.v.), applied to two women in the Apocrypha and New Test.
1. The wife of Abraham (Heb 11:11; 1Pe 3:6).,
2. The daughter of Raguel and Edna, betrothed to her cousin Tobias, a native of Ecbatana in Media, in the apocryphal history of Tobit. As the story goes, she had been married to seven husbands, who were all slain on the wedding night by Asmodaeus, the evil spirit, who loved her (Tobit 3, 7). This spirit the rabbins call Ashmedai, and say he was the incestuous offspring of Tubal-Cain by his sister Naama, who became the mother of many devils; and that he was enamored of the beauty of Sara as the angels were of the daughters of men (Genesis 5). SEE ASMODAEUS. The breaking of the spell and the chasing away of the evil spirit by the fishy fume, when Sara was married to Tobias, with whom she afterwards lived in peace, are told in ch. 8. SEE TOBIT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Sara
Sa’ra. Greek form of Sarah.