Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Hagar was an Egyptian girl who was a slave to Abram’s (Abraham’s) wife, Sarah. We find most of the information about Hagar in Genesis 16. After God had appeared to Abram and promised him a homeland and a heritage ( Genesis 12:1–4 ), ten years went by, and he and Sarah still had no baby ( Genesis 16:1 ).
Hagar, a non-Israelite, a woman with no power or status, is the first person in Scripture to be visited by an angel and the only person in Scripture to give God a name—El Roi, “the God who sees me.”. In the midst of her pain and struggle, Hagar receives God’s blessing and promises.
We meet Hagar in Genesis 16, where she is introduced as Sarah ’s “Egyptian maid.”1 Midrashic tradition tells us that she was actually an Egyptian princess. Seeing how G‑d had miraculously saved Sarah from his clutches, Pharah concluded, “It is better for my daughter to be a maid in their home than a ruler in another."
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