“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!””

Genesis 16:13

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Hagar: The Runaway Slave Who Named God (Genesis 16)
Who is the angel of the LORD who found Hagar?
This is the first time "the angel of the LORD" appears in the Bible. The Hebrew malak (H4397) means messenger, yet this messenger speaks as God: "I will greatly multiply your offspring" (Genesis 16:10) is a promise only God can make. Hagar then names the LORD Himself (Genesis 16:13). The God who speaks came down the road she was running.
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Connection with the offering of Isaac
Hagar's name for the LORD, "the God who sees me," comes from the same Hebrew verb Abraham later used when he named the mountain where he offered Isaac (Genesis 22:14). Hagar learned that God sees when she was alone in the desert; Abraham learned it on his own mountain, with the knife in his hand.
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Connection with Isaac meeting Rebekah
Hagar's words here gave a well its name, Beer-lahai-roi. Isaac had just come back from that well when he met Rebekah (Genesis 24:62); he came from the well of the God who sees, and that evening he "looked up" and saw.
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The first person to name God
Hagar is the first person in the Bible to give God a name. She heard Him, carried what He said back to a hard household, and lived for years before His promises about her son came true.
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