Genesis 21:6

And she said, Elohim hath brought me tzechok (laughter), so that all that hear yitzchak (will laugh) with me.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5And Avraham was a hundred years old, when bno Yitzchak was born unto him.

7And she said, Who would have said unto Avraham, that Sarah should nurse banim? for I have borne him ben in his old age.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:12Therefore Sarah laughed [titzchak, sounds like Yitzchak] within herself, saying, After I am grown old shall I have pleasure, adoni being old also?

Psalms 113:9He settleth the akeret (barren woman) in her bais 1 to be a happy em of banim. 1 Praise ye Hashem.

Isaiah 49:15Can an isha forget her nursing baby, 1 that she should not have rachamim on her ben beten? 1 Indeed, they may forget, 1 yet I will not forget thee. 1

Isaiah 54:1Sing, O akarah (barren woman), + 54:1 i.e., Yerushalayim emptied out by the Golus that Isaiah sees coming thou that didst not bear; 1 break forth into singing, and shout for joy, 1 thou that didst not travail with child; 1 for rabbim bnei shome'mah (more are the children of the desolate woman) + 54:1 i.e. referring to those of Jerusalem making aliyah from the Golus so that Moshiachʼs Kehillah can come forth at Jerusalem — Ac 2:41 1 than the bnei be'ulah (children of the married woman), + 54:1 i.e., Jerusalem as the Sarah at first barren then greatly fruitful; see Gn 17:16 saith Hashem. + 54:1 See Ga 4:27 1

Luke 1:46And Miryam said, My soul doth magnify Hashem. + 1:46 Ps 34:2,3

John 16:21The isha (woman) when she gives birth, has agmat nefesh (grief), + 16:21 Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17; Mic 4:9; Hos 13:13 because the sha'ah (hour, time) of her has come. But when she gives birth to the yeled, she no longer has zikaron of the Tribulation because of the naches that an ish was born into the Olam Hazeh.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:2-9

The Birth of Isaac. ( b. c. 1897.) 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God… Read the whole commentary →

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