Genesis 16:7

RBT Translation:

And a messenger⁵⁹⁷ of Yahweh is finding her upon an eye of the Dual-Waters in the Wilderness, upon the Eye in the Road of Wall,⁵⁹⁸

LITV Translation:
And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness; by the well in the way of Shur.

ESV Translation:
The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And an angel of the Lord found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Footnotes

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Messengers

Strong’s #4397, malak. Messenger. Always masculine. There are no female messengers spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures. A contrast is made between messengers and builders in Hebrews 1. There are numerous clues as to what messengers are. Messengers are sent ones, slaves, who can be deaf (Isa. 42:19). They are the priests—also only men—who are guarding knowledge (recall the Cherubs guarding the way to the tree),

For the lips of a priest are guarding knowledge and the law they are seeking from his mouth, for a messenger of Yahweh of armies is he. Malachi 2:7 literal

Messengers are a foreshadow, as are miracles, signs, and wonders. They are meant to foreshadow something that is other wise too great for our present minds to grasp in our “infancy” as humans. They are the sent ones who carry the message,

“And Heel is sending messengers to his faces toward Prepared his brother Earth-ward of Hairy, the field of Edom” Genesis 32:3 literal

As we grow up into the fulness of the measure of a “complete man” (Eph. 4:13 BLB) we are wrestling with things we do not understand. We are not yet complete as humans. In these last days no one is seeking to arrive. All have turned aside. Death looms. But a few, a remnant, will emerge and succeed at laying hold of the prize—and they will lead the rest in glory. Those who believe will begin to see the light and glory of the true language behind the Word such as this one:

“Then the desire having conceived, is bearing sin; and the sin having become complete, is causing to come in forth death.” James 1:15 literal

Such a verse speaks very clearly of a “mother”, a “built-one”, and a “builder” if the text is left unchanged. Wisdom flips our thought patterns upside down and what we thought was the context ends up being the object and the object, the context. Hidden revelations begin to show themselves. If your mind is hurting, you are heading in the right direction. You are waking up.

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Hebrew be-derek Shur. Shur is a word for wall (Strong’s #7791) related to shor (#7794) ox. This symbolic pattern carries into other scriptures:

We have a little sister,
    And she has no breasts;
    What are we making for our sister
    in the Hot-one which she is being spoken in herself?
“If she is a wall [chomah],
    We are building on her a battlement of silver;
    But if she is a door,
    We are besieging her with planks of cedar.”

Song of Solomon 8:8 literal