“Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.”
Genesis 16:14
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- Hagar: The Runaway Slave Who Named God (Genesis 16)
Why is it surprising that Hagar names God?
In Hagar's world gods named people, and a slave, a woman and a foreigner had no standing to name a god. Yet Hagar names the LORD. The verb see is ra'ah (H7200), and the name she gives is El Roi (H7210), the God who sees me.
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Later, alone in the desert with her son, Hagar was shown a well by God (Genesis 21:19). The Hebrew word for well, be'er, ties that moment back to Beer-lahai-roi, the well of the Living One who sees me. Both times God's provision was already there, and what changed was that Hagar could see it.
Read the whole studyConnection with Isaac at Beer-lahai-roi
This well was named for what happened to Hagar here: she was pregnant and running from Sarai when the angel of the LORD found her. After Abraham's death, his son Isaac lived near this same well (Genesis 25:11).
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