Kejadian 18:12

18:12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, ¹  “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, ²  especially when my husband is old too?” ³ 

Kejadian 18:1

Three Special Visitors

18:1 The Lord appeared to Abraham ⁴  by the oaks ⁵  of Mamre while ⁶  he was sitting at the entrance ⁷  to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Pengkhotbah 3:6

3:6 A time to search, and a time to give something up as lost; ⁸ 

a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

[18:12]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[18:12]  ² tn It has been suggested that this word should be translated “conception,” not “pleasure.” See A. A. McIntosh, “A Third Root ‘adah in Biblical Hebrew,” VT 24 (1974): 454-73.

[18:12]  ³ tn The word “too” has been added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[18:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ⁵ tn Or “terebinths.”

[18:1]  ⁶ tn The disjunctive clause here is circumstantial to the main clause.

[18:1]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew noun translated “entrance” is an adverbial accusative of place.

[3:6]  ⁸ tn The term לְאַבֵּד (lÿ’abbed, Piel infinitive construct from אָבַד, ’avad, “to destroy”) means “to lose” (e.g., Jer 23:1) as the contrast with בָּקַשׁ (baqash, “to seek to find”) indicates (HALOT 3 s.v. I אבד; BDB 2 s.v. אבד 3). This is the declarative or delocutive-estimative sense of the Piel: “to view something as lost” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 28, §145; IBHS 403 §24.2g).