Question: What was Sarah’s name before God changed it?
Answer: Sarai. (Genesis 17:15)
Comments: The matriarch Sarah first appears in the Biblical text as Sarai (Genesis 11:29) and is so known until God personally changes her name. The occasion of the name change was the promise of a son to the previously barren woman. The Hebrew word שָׂרָה (sarah) indicates a woman of high rank, and is often translated as "princess" or "high holy one".
Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name." (Genesis 17:15, NASB)
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