Category 2090 - Question 99

Who was Abraham's wife? How old was she when she first gave birth? Abraham is known as the patriarch of what?

His wife was named Sarah, also spelled Sarai, in the Old Testament. She was childless until she was 90 years old. God promised Abraham that she would be a mother of nations (Genesis 17:15-21)

Abraham
is known as the patriarch of the Israelite people through Isaac and the patriarch of Arabs through his son Ishmael, born to Abraham and Hagar (his wife Sarah’s Egyptian slave-girl).