הָגָר
Hâgâr · haw-gawr'
Hagar, the mother of Ishmael
Lexicon
Derivation: of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation;
Hagar, the mother of Ishmael
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Hagar.
Letters
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to reveal, behold › to carry, to lift up › the head, the highest
To reveal, behold that works to carry, to lift up of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of הָגָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hagar2 · 17%
- was hagar1 · 8%
- unto hagar1 · 8%
- and hagar1 · 8%
- which hagar1 · 8%
- when hagar1 · 8%
- of hagar1 · 8%
- it unto hagar1 · 8%
- to hagar1 · 8%
- unto her, what aileth thee, hagar1 · 8%
- whom hagar1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
- Genesis12
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.