Study it in the app“Sarai said to Abram, “Look, YHWH has kept me from bearing children. Go in please to my slave woman; perhaps I will have children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.”
Saraiשָׂרַיsaidוַתֹּאמֶרto Abram,אֶל אַבְרָם“Look,הִנֵּה נָאYHWHיְהוָהhas kept meעֲצָרַנִיfrom bearing children.מִלֶּדֶתGo inבֹּאpleaseנָאto my slave woman;אֶל שִׁפְחָתִיperhapsאוּלַיI will have childrenאִבָּנֶהthrough her.”מִמֶּנָּהAnd Abramוַ אַבְרָםlistenedיִּשְׁמַעto the voiceלְקוֹלof Sarai.שָׂרָי
Sarai
Sarai, the name of Sarah before God changed it (Genesis 17:15).
Where else “saray” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appearsAbram
Abram, the name of Abraham before God changed it (Genesis 17:5). It means "exalted father".
Where else “avram” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsrestrain
To stop something, like rain or a plague.
Where else “atsara” appearsbear
To bring a child into the world, giving birth after pregnancy.
Where else “ledet” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “bo” appearsfemale slave, servant
Female slave, maidservant in the service of the lady of the house.
Where else “shifchati” appearsperhaps
Perhaps, maybe.
Where else “ulay” appearshave children
To build a family, give someone offspring.
Where else “ibane” appearsobey
To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.
Where else “yishma” appearsvoice
What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.
Where else “kol” appearsLiterally “perhaps I will be built up through her”: the slave woman gives a son in the name of her mistress.
1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him children; and she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.
2 · This verse (above)
3So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, at the end of ten years of Abram’s living in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
1. What it says
What did the angel of YHWH say to Hagar by the spring in the wilderness (vv. 7-12)?
2. What it means
What does it teach that Hagar called YHWH “El Roi,” the one who sees me (v. 13)?
3. How I live it
How can you walk with someone today who feels unseen or mistreated?
