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title: הָגָר — Hagar · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הָגָר (1904), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: Hagar. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. Hagar. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הָגָר

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«הָגָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hagar** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 1904 · **BDB:** הָגָר

### Glosses

Hagar (8); O.Hagar (2); \[was\].Hagar (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הָגָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1904/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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[Genesis 16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.16/)

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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.

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