“Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.”
Genesis 21:19
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- Hagar and Ishmael: Why God Heard the Boy in the Desert (Genesis 21)
Where this verb appears again
The Hebrew verb for opened here, paqach, is almost always used of opening eyes, and in the garden it opened eyes to shame. Genesis uses it again when God opened Hagar's eyes in the desert, and she saw a well of water that was already in the ground (Genesis 21:19).
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