Genesis 16:8
And he said, Hagar, Saraiʼs shifchah, from where camest thou? And where wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my gevirah Sarai.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9And the Malach Hashem said unto her, Return to thy gevirah, and submit thyself under her hands.
Cross References
Genesis 4:10And He said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brotherʼs dahm crieth unto Me from haadamah.
Genesis 16:4And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her gevirah was despised in her eyes.
Judges 19:17And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw haish haoreach (the wayfaring man, traveling man) in the rechov haIr; and the ish hazaken said, Whither goest thou? And whence comest thou?
1 Kings 19:9And he came there unto hame'arah (the cave), and lodged there; and, hinei, the Devar Hashem came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Eliyahu?
Ecclesiastes 10:4If the ruach of the moshel rise up against thee, 1 leave not thy mekom; 1 for calmness pacifieth chatta'im gedolim.
Ephesians 6:5Avadim (servants), serve with mishma'at (obedience) your adonim according to the basar B'YIR'AH (with fear) and BIRA'DAH (with trembling) + 6:5 Ps 2:11 with your levavot of erlichkeit (sincerity) as to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:8-10
7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. Here is the first mention we have in scripture of an angel's appearance. Hagar was a type of the law, which was given by the disposition of angels; but the world… Read the whole commentary →