Genesis 16:1
New International Version
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;

New Living Translation
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

English Standard Version
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

Berean Standard Bible
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

King James Bible
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

New King James Version
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

New American Standard Bible
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.

NASB 1995
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

NASB 1977
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar.

Amplified Bible
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

Christian Standard Bible
Abram’s wife, Sarai, had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

American Standard Version
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Sarai the wife of Abram did not give birth for him and he had a female Egyptian Servant and her name was Hagar.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Sara the wife of Abram bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Agar.

Contemporary English Version
Abram's wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Sarai the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children; having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

English Revised Version
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Sarai, Abram's wife, was not able to have children. She owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

Good News Translation
Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,

International Standard Version
Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Literal Standard Version
And Sarai, Abram’s wife, has not borne to him, and she has a handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar;

Majority Standard Bible
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

New American Bible
Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children. Now she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

NET Bible
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

New Revised Standard Version
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar,

New Heart English Bible
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children, but she had an Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

World English Bible
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Young's Literal Translation
And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name is Hagar;

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Context
The Birth of Ishmael
1Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. 2So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.…

Cross References
Genesis 11:30
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Genesis 12:16
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

Genesis 15:21
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

Genesis 21:9
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

1 Samuel 1:5
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.


Treasury of Scripture

Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

A.

Genesis 15:2,3
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? …

Genesis 21:10,12
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac…

Genesis 25:21
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Egyptian.

Genesis 12:16
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

Genesis 21:9,21
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking…

name.

Galatians 4:24
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

Agar.

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Genesis 16
1. Sarai, being barren, gives Hagar to Abram.
4. Hagar, being afflicted for despising her mistress, runs away.
7. An angel commands her to return and submit herself,
10. promises her a numerous posterity,
12. and shows their character and condition.
13. Hagar names the place, and returns to Sarai.
15. Ishmael is born.
16. The age of Abram.














XVI.

THE SON OF THE BONDWOMAN.

(1) Now Sarai.--The history of Abram is given in a succession of brief narratives, written possibly by the patriarch himself; and though papyrus was known at Ur (Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch., i. 343, ii. 430), yet the absence of any convenient writing material for ordinary use would oblige men in those ancient days to content themselves with short inscriptions, like those tablets of clay brought from Ur, many of which now in the British. Museum are said to be considerably older than the time of Abram. The narrator would naturally make but few alterations in such precious-documents, and hence a certain amount of recapitulation, like that which we find in the Books of Samuel, where again we have not a narrative from one pen, but the arrangement of materials already ancient. As, however, the Divine object was the revealing to mankind of the way by which God would raise up man from the fall, the narrator would be guided by inspiration in his choice of materials, and in the omission of such things as did not fall in with this purpose; and the evident reverence with which he deals with these records is a warrant to us of their genuineness. Such additions as the remark that the "Valley of Shaveh" was many centuries later called "the King's Dale" (Genesis 14:17; 2Samuel 18:18) are generally acknowledged to have been the work of Ezra and the men of the Great Synagogue, after the return from the exile.

Hagar.--As this word apparently comes from the Arabic verb to flee, it cannot have been her original name, unless we suppose that she really was an Arab fugitive who had taken refuge in Egypt. More probably she was an Egyptian woman who had escaped to Abram when he was in the Negeb, and had then received this appellation, which virtually means run-away.

Verse 1. - Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children (literally, bare not to him, notwithstanding the promise; the barrenness of Sarai being introduced as the point of departure for the ensuing narrative, and emphasized as the cause or occasion of the subsequent transaction): and she had - literally, to her (there was) - an handmaid, an Egyptian (obtained probably while in the house of Pharaoh (Genesis 12:16) - whose name was Hagar - "flight," from hagar, to flee. Cf. Hegirah, the flight of Mahomet. Not her original designation, but given to her afterwards, either because of her flight from Egypt (Ambrose, Wordsworth), or because of her escape from her mistress (Michaelis, Bush, 'Speaker's Commentary'). Though not the imaginary or mythical (Bohlen), it is doubtful if she was the real (Ainsworth, Bush), ancestor of the Hagarenes (1 Chronicles 5:10, 19, 20; 1 Chronicles 27:31; Psalm 83:6, 8).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now Abram’s
אַבְרָ֔ם (’aḇ·rām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 87: Abram -- 'exalted father', the original name of Abraham

wife
אֵ֣שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

Sarai
וְשָׂרַי֙ (wə·śā·ray)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 8297: Sarai -- a wife of Abram

had not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

borne a child
יָלְדָ֖ה (yā·lə·ḏāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

to him,
ל֑וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

but
וְלָ֛הּ (wə·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

she had an Egyptian
מִצְרִ֖ית (miṣ·rîṯ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4713: Egyptian -- inhabitant of Egypt

maidservant
שִׁפְחָ֥ה (šip̄·ḥāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8198: Maid, maidservant

named
וּשְׁמָ֥הּ (ū·šə·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8034: A name

Hagar.
הָגָֽר׃ (hā·ḡār)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1904: Hagar


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