Genesis 16:13
11 The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
- KJV
- And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
- WEB
- She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
- ASV
- And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto her, Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me?
- DARBY
- And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, Thou art the God who reveals himself, for she said, Also here have I seen after he has revealed himself.
- BLB
- And she called the name of YHWH who spoke to her: “You [are] El-Roi,” for she said, “Even here I have seen after Him who sees me?”
- ÅB
- Og hun gav Herren, som hadde talt med henne, navnet "Du er Gud, den som ser". For hun sa: Har jeg virkelig fått se ham som ser meg?
- OTB
- Hun kalte navnet på Herren som talte til henne, "Du er Gud som ser meg," for hun sa, "Jeg har nå sett Den som ser meg."
- B1930
- Og hun gav Herren, som hadde talt med henne, navnet "Du er Gud, den som ser". For hun sa: Har jeg virkelig fått se ham som ser mig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 139:1–12
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Read in contextGenesis 32:30
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Read in contextProverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
Read in contextProverbs 5:21
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
Read in contextGenesis 16:7
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
Read in contextGenesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
Read in contextGenesis 22:14
And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
Read in contextExodus 34:5–7
And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
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