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• Sarah

  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.

• Genesis 16

  Genesis 16 recounts how the childless Sarai gave her maidservant Hagar to Abram, leading to the birth of Ishmael. At its center is the scene in which Hagar, having fled, meets the angel of the LORD beside a spring in the wilderness and calls him "Thou God seest me," that is, the God who sees.

• Iscah

  Iscah is a woman mentioned once, 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.

• Genesis 17

  Genesis 17 is the chapter in which God reestablishes His covenant with Abram at the age of ninety-nine. God changes the names of Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, commands circumcision as the sign of the covenant, and promises that Isaac will be born the following year.

• Genesis 12

  Genesis 12 is the chapter in which God calls Abram to leave Haran and go to Canaan, promising to make of him a great nation and to bless him. It then recounts how Abram, fleeing a famine, went down into Egypt and deceptively presented his wife Sarai as his sister.

• Genesis 11

  Genesis 11 contains the account of Babel, in which the languages were divided and people were scattered over all the earth, followed by the genealogy from Shem to Terah. It relates how Terah took Abram, Lot, and Sarai, left Ur of the Chaldees, and settled in Haran.

• Hagar and Ishmael

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

• Haran

  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.

• Angel of the Lord

  The Angel of the Lord is an Old Testament term for a being sent by God who appears to people and delivers his word. Because the angel sometimes speaks as though he were God himself, interpreters disagree about the angel's identity.

• Ur of the Chaldees

  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.

• Milcah

  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.

• Straight Street

  Straight Street (Korean 직가, 直街) is a street within the city of Damascus mentioned in Acts 9:11. The house of Judas, where Saul stayed immediately after his conversion, stood on this street, and Ananias was sent there.

• Sardis

  Sardis was an ancient city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and the site of one of the seven churches to which the Book of Revelation addresses letters. Revelation 3:1-6 contains the message sent to this church.

• Seraiah

  Seraiah was a high priest in the final years of the Kingdom of Judah who was executed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, after the fall of Jerusalem. He is recorded as the father of Jehozadak (Jozadak) and as an ancestor of Ezra.

• Sarah Thistlethwaite

  Sarah Thistlethwaite (1877–1937) was the wife of Charles Parham, an early leader of the American Pentecostal movement. She joined her husband in itinerant evangelism, led the Apostolic Faith movement after his death, and compiled his biography.

• Sarah Barry

  Sarah Barry (born 1930) is a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, the Southern Presbyterian Church). In 1961 she co-founded University Bible Fellowship (UBF) in Gwangju with Samuel Lee (Lee Chang-woo), and in 2002 she became the second general director of UBF worldwide.

• Sarah Hall Boardman

  Sarah Hall Boardman (1803–1845) was an American Baptist missionary. In Burma (present-day Myanmar) she helped establish schools and churches among the Karen people, and after the death of her first husband, George Boardman, she married Adoniram Judson.

• Judas (of Damascus)

  Judas was a man whose house stood on the street called Straight in Damascus. Saul (Paul), blinded immediately after his conversion, stayed in his house. Judas is named only once, in Acts 9:11.

• Jozadak

  Jozadak was the son of Seraiah, the high priest in Jerusalem just before the Babylonian exile. He was carried into captivity when Judah fell, and Scripture records him as the father of Jeshua (Joshua), who became high priest after the return from exile.

• Eunuch

  A eunuch was an official who served the king and the royal household closely in ancient palaces and was in many cases a castrated man. The Revised Korean Version renders the same original terms variously as hwangwan ("eunuch"), naesi ("court eunuch"), goja ("castrated man"), and others.