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Genesis 21

Gen. 21:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Sarah
Sarah (Hebrew #8283)
Sarah, Abraham's wife
KJV usage: Sarah.
Pronounce: saw-raw'
Origin: the same as 8282
saw
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the son
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Hagar
Hagar (Hebrew #1904)
Hagar, the mother of Ishmael
KJV usage: Hagar.
Pronounce: haw-gawr'
Origin: of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation
the Egyptian
Mitsriy (Hebrew #4713)
a Mitsrite, or inhabitant of Mitsrajim
KJV usage: Egyptian, of Egypt.
Pronounce: mits-ree'
Origin: from 4714
o, which she had born
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Abraham
'Abraham (Hebrew #85)
father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram
KJV usage: Abraham.
Pronounce: ab-raw-hawm'
Origin: contracted from 1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
, mocking
tsachaq (Hebrew #6711)
to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by implication, to sport
KJV usage: laugh, mock, play, make sport.
Pronounce: tsaw-khak'
Origin: a primitive root
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Gen. 16:1,15• 1And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.
 15And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. (Gen. 16:1,15)
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Gal. 4:22• 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman. (Gal. 4:22)

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Abraham,
Egyptians,
Hagar,
Sarah; Sarai; Sara,
Son

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Sarah.
Gen. 16:3‑6,15• 3And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.
 4And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.
 5And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee!
 6And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face.
 15And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. (Gen. 16:3‑6,15)
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Gen. 17:20• 20And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. (Gen. 17:20)
Egyptian.
Gen. 16:1,15• 1And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.
 15And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. (Gen. 16:1,15)
mocking.
2 Kings 2:23‑24• 23And he went up from thence to Bethel, and as he went up by the way, there came forth little boys out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald head; go up, bald head!
 24And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two children of them. (2 Kings 2:23‑24)
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2 Chron. 30:10• 10And the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun; but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them. (2 Chron. 30:10)
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2 Chron. 36:16• 16But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy. (2 Chron. 36:16)
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Neh. 4:1‑5• 1And it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we built the wall, he was angry and very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
 2And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?
 3And Tobijah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox went up, it would break down their stone wall.--
 4Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity!
 5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders. (Neh. 4:1‑5)
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Job 30:1• 1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. (Job 30:1)
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Psa. 22:6• 6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people. (Psa. 22:6)
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Psa. 42:10• 10As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:10)
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Psa. 44:13‑14• 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
 14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. (Psa. 44:13‑14)
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Prov. 20:11• 11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. (Prov. 20:11)
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Lam. 1:7• 7In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin. (Lam. 1:7)
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Gal. 4:22,29• 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.
 29But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him that was born according to Spirit, so also it is now. (Gal. 4:22,29)
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Heb. 11:36• 36and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and of bonds and imprisonment. (Heb. 11:36)
• The birth of Isaac did not improve Ishmael, but only brought out his real opposition to the child of promise. (“Genesis 21” by C.H. Mackintosh)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.