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He went inוַיָּבֹאto Hagar,אֶל הָגָרand she conceived;וַתַּהַרand when she sawוַתֵּרֶאthatכִּיshe had conceived,הָרָתָהher mistressגְּבִרְתָּהּbecame of little accountוַתֵּקַלin her eyes.בְּעֵינֶיהָ
Genesis 16:4
Study it in the app“He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became of little account in her eyes.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 16:4, word by word
- He went inיָּבֹאyavo
go in to
To go in to a woman as husband.
Where else “yavo” appears- to Hagarהָגָרhagar
Hagar
Hagar, the Egyptian slave of Sarai, mother of Ishmael.
Where else “hagar” appears- and she conceivedתַּהַרtahar
conceive
Become pregnant, conceive; figuratively, conceive a plan.
Where else “tahar” appears- and when she sawתֵּרֶאtere
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “tere” appears- her mistressגְּבִרְתָּgevirta
mistress
Mistress: the lady who owns a female slave; also a queen.
Where else “gevirta” appears- became of little accountתֵּקַלtekal
despise
To count something or someone as little, as a thing without weight.
Where else “tekal” appears- in her eyesעֵינֶיene
sight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ene” appears
The context
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.
4 · This verse (above)
5Then Sarai said to Abram, “The wrong done to me be on you! I myself gave my slave woman into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I became of little account in her eyes. May YHWH judge between me and you.”
To study Genesis 16 in a group
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?