Sarah

Genesis tells that Sarai, wife of Abram, went with him from Ur and Haran to Canaan; twice, in Egypt and in Gerar, she was taken into a king's palace and returned unharmed (Genesis 12, 20). Childless for decades, she gave her maidservant Hagar to Abram, and Ishmael was born. God renamed her Sarah, "princess," and promised her a son; she laughed when she overheard the visitors at Mamre, and at 90 she bore Isaac (Genesis 17–21). Sarah died at 127 in Kiryat Arba, that is Hebron, and Abraham bought the Cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite for 400 shekels of silver to bury her, the first land the family owned in Canaan (Genesis 23).

The first of the four matriarchs, Sarah is the only woman in the Torah whose age at death is recorded. The Talmud (Megillah 14a) counts her among the seven prophetesses, and Rashi, on God's words "listen to her voice" (Genesis 21:12), says she was greater than Abraham in prophecy. The Midrash links her death to the news of the Akedah. Her tomb in Machpelah is still a place of Jewish prayer.