Hagar [N] [H] [S]flight, or, according to others, stranger, an Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid ( Genesis 16:1 ; Genesis 21:9 Genesis 21:10 ), whom she gave to Abraham (q.v.) as a secondary wife ( 16:2 [..]

In the Old Testament Hagar was the mother of Abraham's first son, Ishmael, and had been the maid of Sarah, Abraham's wife. After the birth of Sarah's son Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael were b [..]

flight, or, according to others, stranger, an Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid (Gen. 16:1; 21:9, 10), whom she gave to Abraham (q.v.) as a secondary wife (16:2). When she was about to become a mother s [..]

(flight), an Egyptian woman, the handmaid or slave of Sarah, (Genesis 16:1) whom the latter gave as a concubine to Abraham, after he had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan and had no children by Sa [..]

Hagar. a stranger; one that fears

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Possibly means "flight" in Hebrew, though it could also be of unknown Egyptian origin. In the Old Testament she is the second wife of Abraham and the mother of Ishmael, the founder o [..]