Genesis 11:30

Verse

RBT Translation:

And she is becoming Noble-Lady uprooted,⁴⁵⁵ nothing is to-herself a וָלָֽד-boy.⁴⁵⁶

LITV Translation:
And Sarai was barren; there was no child to her.

ESV Translation:
Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Sarai was barren, and did not bear children.

Footnotes

455

Strong’s #6135, aqar. From the root aqar (#6131), plucked up, rooted up. Interpreted as barren. According to Strong, “as if extirpated in the generative organs”

456

Hebrew וָלָֽד walad. Masculine singular. This is the only instance of this word walad (boy, offspring Strong’s #3206) in the Masoretic Text. It is also found in 2 Sam 6:23, according to Gesenius, with the same phrasing but also the masculine verb to be, though other translations ignore the gender:

“Michal, built-one of Saul, a boy has not become to her until the hot-one of her death.”

This phrase specifically speaks to possession and lacks any verbiage about bearing as is usual when speaking about mothers giving birth, i.e. “she conceives and bears Cain” Genesis 4:1. Jesus said every stroke and tittle of the Law matters. “Has become” is indicative of the predestined, those chosen from the foundation of the world to become heirs, the ones “from-to the Age.”