הָגָרHâgâr
proper name, feminine: Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian maid, mother of Ishmael (Genesis 16:1; Genesis 16:4; Genesis 16:8; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 16:15)
Pronunciation: haw-gawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1904
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
- Genesis 16:3 So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)
- Genesis 16:4 So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt.
- Genesis 16:8 The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she replied.
- Genesis 16:15 So Hagar gave Abram a son, and Abram named him Ishmael.
- Genesis 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Ishmael was born.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).