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Genesis 21

Genesis 21 ( Genesis • Chapter 21 (34 verses)): And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to h... Mentions: Abram/Abraham, Isaac , Paran , Egypt . Within the broader Biblical Knowledge Graph, this connects directly to Justification by Faith, Imputation & Pauline Theology—Sola Fide is directly grounded in Genesis 15:6 , Habakkuk 2:4 , and the Pauline corpus ( Rom 3:21-28 , Rom 4 , Gal 2:16 ): God forensically declares the sinner righteous through faith in Jesus Christ . The debate between the Reformation forensic imputation model and the New Perspective on Paul is cataloged under scholarly-debate.

Connected Genealogical Figures & Lineage

Isaac (Generation 21 • Messianic Line • Child of Abram/Abraham ): ( Genesis 21:5 , 1 Chronicles 1:34 , Luke 3:34 , Genesis 35:28-29 ) G-d named Isaac before he was even born ( Genesis 17:19 ). (mentioned in Genesis 17 , Genesis 21 , Genesis 22 ) Jacob/Israel (Generation 22 • Messianic Line • Child of Isaac): ( Genesis 21:26 , 1 Chronicles 1:34 , Luke 3:34 , Genesis 49:33 ) G-d changed Jacob 's name to Israel ( Genesis 32:28 ). (mentioned in Genesis 21 , Genesis 32 , Genesis 49 ) Caleb (Generation 26 • Child of Jephunneh ): Caleb is the son of Jephunneh ( Numbers 13:6 ) who was a Kenizzite ( Numbers 32:12 ) of the tribe of Judah ( Numbers 13:6 ). Kenizzites were Canaanites ( Genesis 15:18-21 ). Judah 's first wife (Shua's daughter) was a Canaanite woman( Genesis 38:2 , 12 ). She bore him Er, Onan , and Shelah ( 1 Chronicles 2:3 ) but Er and Onan died. Ergo, it is likely Caleb is descended from Shelah . (mentioned in Genesis 15 , Genesis 38 , Numbers 13 ) Shem (Generation 11 • Messianic Line • Child of Noah ): ( Genesis 5:32 , 1 Chronicles 1:4 , Luke 3:36 ) • ( Genesis 11:10-11 ) Shem was the oldest of Noah 's sons (Shem is older than Japheth - Genesis 10:21 , Ham is the youngest son- Genesis 9:22-24 ) (mentioned in Genesis 5 , Genesis 6 , Genesis 7 )

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Genesis 21:24 : "And Abraham said, I will swear."; Genesis 21:34 : "And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days."; Genesis 21:28 : "And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.". Related canonical books and chapters: Genesis 21 ( Genesis • Chapter 21 (34 verses)), Genesis (Old Testament • 50 Chapters).

Connected Topics & Entities Book/Chapter Verse Person Place Lexicon Theology Commentary

Topics, People & Places (36)

Genesis 21
99% Chapter
Genesis • Chapter 21 (34 verses)

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to h... Mentions: Abram/Abraham, Isaac , Paran , Egypt .

Genesis
99% Old Testament
Old Testament • 50 Chapters

Genesis (Old Testament, 50 chapters). Key figures: Adam , Cain , Abel , Enoch , Irad , Mehujael . Key places: Eden , Havilah 2 , Gihon 2 , Ethiopia , Assyria , Euphrates . Opens with: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...."

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Genesis Part 2 (Chapters 12–50)
VIDEO 99%
VIDEO • overview

Overview of Genesis 12 –50 following God's covenant with Abraham , the trials of Isaac and Jacob , and Joseph 's descent into Egypt showing God working good through human failure.

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License
Isaac
95% Messianic Line
Generation 21 • Messianic Line • Child of Abram/Abraham

( Genesis 21:5 , 1 Chronicles 1:34 , Luke 3:34 , Genesis 35:28-29 ) G-d named Isaac before he was even born ( Genesis 17:19 ).

Jacob/Israel
94% Messianic Line
Generation 22 • Messianic Line • Child of Isaac

( Genesis 21:26 , 1 Chronicles 1:34 , Luke 3:34 , Genesis 49:33 ) G-d changed Jacob's name to Israel ( Genesis 32:28 ).

Caleb
87% Gen 26
Generation 26 • Child of Jephunneh

Caleb is the son of Jephunneh ( Numbers 13:6 ) who was a Kenizzite ( Numbers 32:12 ) of the tribe of Judah ( Numbers 13:6 ). Kenizzites were Canaanites ( Genesis 15:18-21 ). Judah 's first wife (Shua's daughter) was a Canaanite woman( Genesis 38:2 , 12 ). She bore him Er, Onan , and Shelah ( 1 Chronicles 2:3 ) but Er and Onan died. Ergo, it is likely Caleb is descended from Shelah .

Shem
85% Messianic Line
Generation 11 • Messianic Line • Child of Noah

( Genesis 5:32 , 1 Chronicles 1:4 , Luke 3:36 ) • ( Genesis 11:10-11 ) Shem was the oldest of Noah 's sons (Shem is older than Japheth - Genesis 10:21 , Ham is the youngest son- Genesis 9:22-24 )

Midian
85% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Abram/Abraham

Midian is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Abram/Abraham . ( Genesis 25:1-2 )

Jephunneh
84% Gen 25
Generation 25 • Child of Shelah

Caleb is the son of Jephunneh ( Numbers 13:6 ) who was a Kenizzite ( Numbers 32:12 ) of the tribe of Judah ( Numbers 13:6 ). Kenizzites were Canaanites ( Genesis 15:18-21 ). Judah 's first wife, Shua, was a Canaanite woman( Genesis 28:2 , 12 ). She bore him Er, Onan , and Shelah ( 1 Chronicles 2:3 ) but Er and Onan died. Ergo, it is likely Caleb is descended from Shelah .

Gustave Doré — The Creation of Light (1866)
Gustave Doré — The Creation of Light (1866)
IMAGE 83%
IMAGE • artwork

Magnificent wood engraving from Dor é's illustrated Bible depicting God commanding 'Let there be light' ( Genesis 1:3 ) piercing primeval darkness.

Gustave Doré • La Grande Bible de Tours / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Ishmael
83% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Abram/Abraham

( Genesis 16:16 , 1 Chronicles 1:28 , Genesis 25:17 ) Ishmael became an archer ( Genesis 21:20 ).

Reu
81% Messianic Line
Generation 16 • Messianic Line • Child of Peleg

Reu is a biblical figure in Generation 16 of the Messianic Line , child of Peleg , parent of Serug . ( Genesis 10:25 , 1 Chronicles 1:24-25 , Luke 3:35 , Genesis 11:20-21 )

Methuselah
80% Messianic Line
Generation 8 • Messianic Line • Child of Enoch

Methuselah is a biblical figure in Generation 8 of the Messianic Line , child of Enoch , parent of Lamech . ( Genesis 5:21 , 1 Chronicles 1:2 , Luke 3:37 , Genesis 5:27 )

Michelangelo — The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel)
Michelangelo — The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel)
IMAGE 80%
IMAGE • artwork

Iconic high Renaissance fresco painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel illustrating God breathing life into Adam ( Genesis 2:7 ).

Michelangelo Buonarroti • Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Gustave Doré — The Deluge (The Great Flood)
Gustave Doré — The Deluge (The Great Flood)
IMAGE 80%
IMAGE • artwork

Dramatic engraving portraying desperate families and a mother shielding her child on a rock as floodwaters engulf the earth ( Genesis 7 ).

Gustave Doré • La Grande Bible de Tours / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
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Genesis 1:1-10 Historic Lunar Orbit Broadcast Recitation
AUDIO 79%
AUDIO • scripture

Historic audio transmission from Apollo 8 astronauts William Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman reading Genesis 1 from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve 1968.

NASA Astronauts William Anders, Jim Lovell, Frank Borman • NASA / National Archives Public Domain
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Hebrew Genesis Torah Cantillation (Parashat Lekh Lekha V)
AUDIO 79%
AUDIO • scripture

Traditional Tiberian cantillation (te'amim) chanting of the Masoretic Text of Genesis 13 -14 in Biblical Hebrew.

AdoniTzedek / Wikimedia Commons • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Hebrew Genesis Torah Cantillation (Melchizedek Blessing Gen 14)
AUDIO 79%
AUDIO • scripture

Traditional liturgical cantillation of Genesis 14:18-24 recounting Melchizedek king of Salem blessing Abram with bread and wine.

AdoniTzedek / Wikimedia Commons • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Hebrew Genesis Torah Cantillation (Covenant of the Pieces Gen 15)
AUDIO 78%
AUDIO • scripture

Cantillation chanting of Genesis 15 recording God's unilateral covenant with Abram and the promise of heirs like the stars.

AdoniTzedek / Wikimedia Commons • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Genesis Part 1 (Chapters 1–11)
VIDEO 78%
VIDEO • overview

Overview of Genesis 1 –11 exploring creation, the human rebellion in Eden , the spread of sin through Cain and the Flood , and God's scattering of humanity at Babylon .

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License
Bela
78% Gen 24
Generation 24 • Child of Benjamin

Bela is a biblical figure in Generation 24, child of Benjamin , parent of Ezbon , Uzzi , Uzziel , Jerimoth , Iri . ( Genesis 46:21 , Numbers 26:38 , 1 Chronicles 7:6 , 8:1 )

Ashbel (or Jediael?)
77% Gen 24
Generation 24 • Child of Benjamin

Ashbel (or Jediael?) is a biblical figure in Generation 24, child of Benjamin . ( Genesis 46:21 , Numbers 26:38 , 1 Chronicles 7:6 , 1 Chronicles 8:1 )

γένεσις
genesis (génesis) [ghen'-es-is]
G1078 Greek noun feminine 5x
origin, lineage, birth

Primary meaning: origin, lineage, birth. Strong's: nativity; figuratively, nature. Lexical nuances: origin, lineage : βίβλος γενέσεως (as in Ge 2:4 a 5:1 ), Mt 1:1 . birth : Mt 1:18 , Lk 1:14 (Rec. γέννησις ); πρόσωπον τῆς γ. , face of his birth ("what God made him to be," Hort., in l.), Ja 1:23 ; ὁ τροχὸς τῆς γ. , the wheel (course) of birth or creation ("the wheel of man's nature according to its original Divine purpose," Hort), Ja 3:6 .†

Derivation: from the same as G1074 (γενεά);
Septuagint (LXX) Bridge:
LXX ⇄ H8435
Themes:
eschatology creation
Key Scripture Passages:
MAT.1.1 MAT.1.18 LUK.1.14 JAS.1.23 JAS.3.6
Becher
74% Gen 24
Generation 24 • Child of Benjamin

Becher is a biblical figure in Generation 24, child of Benjamin . ( Genesis 46:21 , Numbers 26:38 , 1 Chronicles 7:6 )

Hamul
74% Gen 25
Generation 25 • Child of Perez

Hamul is a biblical figure in Generation 25, child of Perez . ( Genesis 46:12 , Numbers 26:21 , 1 Chronicles 2:5 )

Dinah
74% Gen 23
Generation 23 • Child of Jacob/Israel

Dinah is a biblical figure in Generation 23, child of Jacob/Israel . ( Genesis 30:21 , 34:1 , 46:15 )

Bethuel
73% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Nahor

Bethuel is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Nahor , parent of Rebekah , Laban . ( Genesis 22:22 )

Zimran
73% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Abram/Abraham

Zimran is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Abram/Abraham . ( Genesis 25:1-2 )

Shuah
73% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Abram/Abraham

Shuah is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Abram/Abraham . ( Genesis 25:1-2 )

Jokshan
73% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Abram/Abraham

Jokshan is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Abram/Abraham . ( Genesis 25:1-2 )

Medan
73% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Abram/Abraham

Medan is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Abram/Abraham . ( Genesis 25:1-2 )

Buz
73% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Nahor

Buz is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Nahor . ( Genesis 22:21 )

Kemuel
73% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Nahor

Kemuel is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Nahor . ( Genesis 22:21 )

Ishbak
72% Gen 21
Generation 21 • Child of Abram/Abraham

Ishbak is a biblical figure in Generation 21, child of Abram/Abraham . ( Genesis 25:1-2 )

Justification by Faith, Imputation & Pauline Theology
72% Wiki Topic
Sola Fide, Forensic Righteousness, 4QMMT 'Works of the Law', and the New Perspective on Paul

Sola Fide is directly grounded in Genesis 15:6 , Habakkuk 2:4 , and the Pauline corpus ( Rom 3:21-28 , Rom 4 , Gal 2:16 ): God forensically declares the sinner righteous through faith in Jesus Christ . The debate between the Reformation forensic imputation model and the New Perspective on Paul is cataloged under scholarly-debate.

Scripture Passages (24)

Genesis 21:24 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham said, I will swear.

Genesis 21:34 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

Genesis 21:28 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Genesis 21:21 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran : and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt .

Genesis 21:11 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham 's sight because of his son.

Genesis 21:31 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Genesis 21:4 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 21:5 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

Genesis 21:9 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham , mocking.

Genesis 21:29 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abimelech said unto Abraham , What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

Genesis 21:6 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

Genesis 21:13 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

Genesis 21:15 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21:20 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Genesis 5:21 (KJV)
KJV

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah :

Genesis 21:25 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

Genesis 49:21 (KJV)
KJV

Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

Genesis 21:27 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Genesis 30:21 (KJV)
KJV

And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah .

Genesis 21:1 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 15:21 (KJV)
KJV

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Genesis 21:3 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac .

Genesis 35:21 (KJV)
KJV

And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

Genesis 21:18 (KJV)
Genesis 21 KJV

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

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