"Like this Time, She Will be Alive"

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Then one said, “I will return to you next year, and your wife Sarah shall have a son!” Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind him.

WHEN THE SEASON COMETH ROUND. Ka-et (when the season) means next year, at this time, and chayyah (cometh round), that Sarah will then be alive. It is like ko le-chai (so to life next year) (I Sam. 25:6).

Ibn Ezra on Genesis 18:10:1

כעת חיה means at this time next year — it was the Passover, and on the next Passover Isaac was born — since we do not read כְּעֵת (at “a” time) but כָּעֵת (at this time). The words כעת חיה signify: at this time when there will be life to you — when you will all be healthy and alive.

Rashi on Genesis 18:10:2-3

כעת חיה, at about this time of year next year Sarah will be giving birth. We find the term חיה used to describe giving birth in Yuma 73. On the other hand, the word may also refer to a time frame, i.e. at this time next year, seeing that you will both be alive, Sarah will bear a son. G’d had spoken of למועד הזה בשנה האחרת (compare Genesis 17,21) whereas the angel expressed the same thought in the words כעת חיה. The angel did not spell out to Avraham precisely when this birth would take place, as had G’d in the previous chapter.

Radak on Genesis 18:10:2

And one of them said, Returning I will return to thee in the coming year; and you shall be revived, and, behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was hearkening at the door of the tent, and Ishmael stood behind her, and marked what the Angel said.

Targum Jonathan on Genesis 18:10

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