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• Sarah

  [People]

  Sarah is the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac in the Book of Genesis. Originally named Sarai, she remained childless into old age and, according to the biblical account, bore Isaac at the age of ninety in fulfillment of God's promise.

• Hagar and Ishmael

  [People]

  Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maidservant who bore Abraham his son Ishmael, Abraham's firstborn. Their story appears in Genesis 16, 21, and 25, and Paul uses the account allegorically in Galatians 4.

• Terah

  [People]

  Terah was the father of Abraham. He led his family out of Ur of the Chaldees toward Canaan but settled in Haran, where he died (Genesis 11).

• Haran

  [Bible]

  Haran was a city in northern Mesopotamia where Abraham's family stayed after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, and where Jacob spent twenty years in the household of his uncle Laban.

• Adonai

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  Adonai is a Hebrew word meaning "my Lord," used in the Old Testament as a title for God. In Judaism, readers did not pronounce the divine name (YHWH) directly but substituted this word in its place.

• Abrahamic Covenant

  [Bible]

  The Abrahamic covenant is the covenant in which God promised Abraham and his descendants a great nation, land, and blessing, and declared that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him. It appears in Genesis 12–22.

• Milcah

  [People]

  Milcah is a woman in the Book of Genesis, the daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. She was the mother of Bethuel and the grandmother of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac.

• Iscah

  [People]

  Iscah is a woman mentioned once in the Bible, in Genesis 11:29. She was the daughter of Haran son of Terah and the sister of Milcah and Lot. Jewish tradition sometimes identifies her with Sarai, the wife of Abraham.

• Vision

  [Bible]

  A vision is a means by which God makes something known to a person by showing scenes or meanings that cannot be perceived with ordinary sight. Visions appear frequently in the Old Testament prophetic books and in the Book of Acts.

• Mamre

  [Bible]

  Mamre is a place near Hebron where Abraham pitched his tent and built an altar. There he received a visit from three men and heard the promise that Isaac would be born. In the Bible, the name occurs only in Genesis.

• Salem

  [Bible]

  Salem is the name of the city ruled by Melchizedek in Genesis 14. The Hebrew name shares a root with the word for "peace," and Jewish and Christian tradition generally regards it as an ancient name for Jerusalem.

• Ai (Place)

  [Bible]

  Ai was a Canaanite city east of Bethel. In the book of Joshua, it is the place where Israel was defeated in its first attack after the fall of Jericho and which it captured in a second attack.

• Wine in the Bible

  [Bible]

  Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice. In the Bible it symbolizes joy and abundance and is used in sacrifices and in Communion. Scripture also warns against drunkenness.

• Tidal

  [People]

  Tidal was the king of Goiim mentioned in Genesis 14. Allied with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, he was one of the four kings who fought against five kings, including the king of Sodom.

• Lot

  [People]

  Lot is the nephew of Abraham in the Book of Genesis. He lived in Sodom, was rescued when the city was destroyed, and is recorded as the ancestor of the Moabites and the Ammonites.

• Ur of the Chaldees

  [Bible]

  Ur of the Chaldees is the Mesopotamian city where Abraham lived with his family before he left in obedience to God's call. It appears in Genesis and Nehemiah, and scholars disagree about its exact location.

• El Elyon

  [Bible]

  El Elyon is a Hebrew title for God meaning "God Most High." It first appears in Genesis 14 as the name of the God whom Melchizedek served.

• Amorites

  [Bible]

  The Amorites were a people who lived in the hill country of Canaan and east of the Jordan River before Israel entered the land. In the Old Testament, the name also serves as a designation for the native inhabitants of Canaan as a whole.

• Amorites

  [Bible]

  The Amorites were a people who lived in the hill country of Canaan and east of the Jordan River before Israel entered the land. In the Bible, the name is also used for the native inhabitants of Canaan as a whole.

• Aram

  [Bible]

  Aram is the Old Testament name for a Semitic people who lived in what is now Syria and northern Mesopotamia, and for the states they established. In the New Testament the region is usually called Syria.