Q 01/05

Before God renamed her in Genesis 17, Abraham's wife was known by what name?

A) Sarai

B) Serah

C) Salome

D) Sapphira

Answer · why

A) Sarai

Both forms likely come from the same Hebrew root meaning 'important woman'; Abram was renamed Abraham in the same passage.

Q 02/05

According to Genesis, how old was Sarah when she died?

A) 99

B) 110

C) 120

D) 127

Answer · why

D) 127

Abraham bought the cave near Hebron to bury her, the first land the Israelites owned in Canaan.

Q 03/05

After an angel found her by a desert spring, Hagar gave God a name usually translated as what?

A) El Shaddai

B) El Roi

C) El Elyon

D) Adonai

Answer · why

B) El Roi

The name is often rendered 'the God who sees me', and the well was called Beer-lahai-roi.

Q 04/05

Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, came from which nation?

A) Moab

B) Canaan

C) Egypt

D) Midian

Answer · why

C) Egypt

Later she found a wife for Ishmael from her own homeland while they lived in the Desert of Paran.

Q 05/05

How did Abraham's servant recognise Rebekah as the right wife for Isaac at the well?

A) She offered to water his camels

B) She recited a blessing

C) She was wearing a veil

D) She brought him bread

Answer · why

A) She offered to water his camels

He had prayed for exactly that sign, and she kept drawing until all ten camels were full.