Genesis 16:1
And Noble-Lady, woman of Raised-Father, has not borne to him, and to herself a slavewoman, a siege-enclosure, and her name is the Foreigner.592
Footnote:
| 592 | Gesenius and Strong Hagar conjectured that Hagar's name meant ‘flight’ as in to flee. But "Of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation." The lettering ה-גר however is strikingly obvious. A definite article and גר which means "foreigner/sojourner". See Strong's #1481 and #1616 stranger/foreigner מצרית is the feminine form taken from the masculine מצוֹר siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment. Hence the "Egyptianess" (#4713) of the dual siege enclosures, the "Egyptians" מצרים all stemming from the root צוּר. See (#6696) |