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Commentary for Genesis 18:11

וְאַבְרָהָ֤ם וְשָׂרָה֙ זְקֵנִ֔ים בָּאִ֖ים בַּיָּמִ֑ים חָדַל֙ לִהְי֣וֹת לְשָׂרָ֔ה אֹ֖רַח כַּנָּשִֽׁים׃

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.—

Rashi on Genesis

חדל להיות means [that] it had ceased from her.
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Ramban on Genesis

‘BA’IM BAYAMIM’ (ADVANCED IN DAYS). In his youthful days a man is called “standing in days,” and they are referred to as “his days” because they belong to him, just as in verse The number of thy days will I fulfill.97Exodus 23:26. But when he gets old and has lived longer than most people of his generation, it is said of him that he is ba bayamim, [literally, “came into days”], because it is as if he came into another land, travelling from and arriving in a city each and every day.
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Radak on Genesis

ואברהם, this line has been written only in order to account for the reason of Sarah’s laughter.
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