Person
Hagar
Sarah's Egyptian servant and mother of Ishmael; the first person to name God — “Thou God seest me” (El Roi, 16:13).
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Hagar in Scripture
15 verses use this name, in 2 books. Open a book to read its mentions here. Text: Berean Standard Bible. Names repeat in Scripture — some of these verses may speak of another person called Hagar.
First namedGenesis 16:1Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.Last namedGalatians 4:25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
Old Testament1 book · 13 mentions
Genesis13 mentions
- Genesis 16:1Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
- Genesis 16:3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
- Genesis 16:4And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
- Genesis 16:6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
- Genesis 16:7Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
8 further mentions in Genesis — read them in the book.
New Testament1 book · 2 mentions
Galatians2 mentions
- Galatians 4:24These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
- Galatians 4:25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
Named alongside
Other people MannaFest has a page for whose name the text uses in Genesis 16, Genesis 21, Genesis 25 and Galatians 4. Each card shows the verse it came from. Scripture reuses names freely, so a page behind a name here may belong to another person who shares it.
AbrahamCalled out of Ur, the father of all who believe, justified by faith, and the friend of God through whose seed all natio…Genesis 21:2So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
IsaacThe son of promise and of laughter — bound on Moriah, the quiet inheritor of the covenant.Genesis 21:3And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
IshmaelAbraham's son by Hagar — blessed and made a great nation, but not the covenant heir; Paul's figure of the flesh (Gal 4:…Genesis 16:11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
SarahAbraham's wife — barren, then bearing Isaac by promise “past age” through faith; Paul's allegory of the covenant of pro…Genesis 21:1Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
EsauIsaac's elder son who despised his birthright (Heb 12:16); father of Edom, Israel's perennial neighbor and adversary.Genesis 25:25The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Studies in the same chapters
No study on the site quotes a verse that names Hagar yet. These work in the chapters where the name appears.