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# הָגָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1904

**Hagar** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hagar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1904/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָגָר: n.pr.f. Hagar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1904/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian maid, mother of Ishmael, Gn 16:1, 4, 8 (all J), v 3, 15(×2), 16; 25:12 (all P), 21:9, 14, 17(×2) (all E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hagar (8); O Hagar (2); \[was\] Hagar (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.9/#tree)

וַתֵּ֨רֶא שָׂרָ֜ה אֶֽת־בֶּן־הָגָ֧ר הַמִּצְרִ֛ית אֲשֶׁר־יָלְדָ֥ה לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם מְצַחֵֽק׃

*Word for word:* and she.saw Sarah (et) the.son of.Hagar the Egyptian whom she.had.borne to Abraham mocking

*JPS 1917:* And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.

[Genesis 16:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.16/#tree)

וְאַבְרָ֕ם בֶּן־שְׁמֹנִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְשֵׁ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֑ים בְּלֶֽדֶת־הָגָ֥ר אֶת־יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל לְאַבְרָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and Abram \[was\].a.son of.eighty year\[s\] and six years when bore Hagar (et) Ishmael to Abram

*JPS 1917:* And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1904.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1904/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).