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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• 1Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
 15And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (Gen. 16:1,15)
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Gal. 4:22• 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. (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 her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
 4And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
 5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
 6But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
 15And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (Gen. 16:3‑6,15)
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Gen. 17:20• 20And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. (Gen. 17:20)
Egyptian.
Gen. 16:1,15• 1Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
 15And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (Gen. 16:1,15)
mocking.
2 Kings 2:23‑24• 23And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
 24And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. (2 Kings 2:23‑24)
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2 Chron. 30:10• 10So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto 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 the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. (2 Chron. 36:16)
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Neh. 4:1‑5• 1But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
 2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
 3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
 4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
 5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before 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 have 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 despised of the people. (Psa. 22:6)
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Psa. 42:10• 10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:10)
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Psa. 44:13‑14• 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
 14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. (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• 7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. (Lam. 1:7)
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Gal. 4:22,29• 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
 29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. (Gal. 4:22,29)
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Heb. 11:36• 36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover 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.