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Genesis 16:7

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

Footnote:

598

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