Keturah


Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. - Genesis 25:1

Story

Abraham takes another wife, Keturah, after Sarah died. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

(Genesis 25:1-2)

Is she Hagar?

Apparently she is according to Jewish tradition? In Bereshit Rabbah 61, a Rav claims Hagar is the Keturah in Genesis 25, renamed to demonstrate her purity in not taking another man while separated from Abraham and wandering. (https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.61.4?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en)

If so, "another wife" implies Hagar was a concubine until Abraham married her after Isaac's marriage.

Maybe she was a different person entirely, as a plain reading of Scripture suggests. Maybe there were three wives of Abraham, one of each son of Noah, connecting Abraham to all humanity. Lots of interpretations, idk.

(https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/4171660/jewish/Who-Was-Keturah-and-Why-Did-Abraham-Marry-Her.htm)