Study it in the app“So 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.”
So Sarai,וַ שָׂרַיAbram’sאַבְרָםwife,אֵשֶׁתtookתִּקַּחHagarאֶת הָגָרthe Egyptian,הַמִּצְרִיתher slave woman,שִׁפְחָתָהּat the endמִקֵּץof tenעֶשֶׂרyearsשָׁנִיםof Abram’sאַבְרָםlivingלְשֶׁבֶתin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Canaan,כְּנָעַןand gave herוַתִּתֵּן אֹתָהּto Abramלְאַבְרָםher husbandאִישָׁהּasלוֹ לְa wife.אִשָּׁה
Sarai
Sarai, the name of Sarah before God changed it (Genesis 17:15).
Where else “saray” appearsAbram
Abram, the name of Abraham before God changed it (Genesis 17:5). It means "exalted father".
Where else “avram” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “eshet” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “tikach” appearsHagar
Hagar, the Egyptian slave of Sarai, mother of Ishmael.
Where else “hagar” appearsEgyptian
Egyptian.
Where else “mitsrit” appearsfemale slave, servant
Female slave, maidservant in the service of the lady of the house.
Where else “shifchata” appearsend
What comes when something finishes: "some days later".
Where else “kets” appearsten
Ten.
Where else “eser” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shanim” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “shevet” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsCanaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “titen” appearshusband
Literally "her man": the one married to her.
Where else “isha” appearsCanaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
2Sarai 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.
3 · This verse (above)
4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became of little account in her eyes.
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?
