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Genesis 21:16 — King James Version← Study notes

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.


Genesis 21:16Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Genesis 21:1619 words
HebrewMeaning
וַ/תֵּלֶךְ֩watēlekə
awayconjH3212
again · bear · bring · carry ···
וַ/תֵּ֨שֶׁבwatēšeb
and she satconjH3427
continue · (cause to · make to) dwell · ease self ···
לָ֜/הּlāh
pron
מִ/נֶּ֗גֶדmineged
from beforepronH5048
against · aloof · far · from ···
הַרְחֵק֙harəḥēq
at a distanceverbH7368
be · cast · drive · get ···
כִּ/מְטַחֲוֵ֣יkiməṭaḥăwēy
like the shooters ofpronH2909
קֶ֔שֶׁתqešet
a bownounH7198
arch · arrow · -shot)
כִּ֣יkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
אָֽמְרָ֔הʾāmərāh
she saidverbH559
appoint · avouch · bid · boast self ···
אַלʾal
may notparticleH408
neither · never · no · nor ···
אֶרְאֶ֖הʾerəʾeh
I lookverbH7200
appear · approve · behold · certainly ···
בְּ/מ֣וֹתbəmwōt
on the death ofpronH4194
death · die
הַ/יָּ֑לֶדhayāled
the boyparticleH3206
child · fruit · son · young man
וַ/תֵּ֣שֶׁבwatēšeb
and she satconjH3427
continue · (cause to · make to) dwell · ease self ···
מִ/נֶּ֔גֶדmineged
from beforepronH5048
against · aloof · far · from ···
וַ/תִּשָּׂ֥אwatiśāʾ
and she lifted upconjH5375
advance · arise · (able to · suffer to) bear(-er ···
אֶתʾet
(as such unrepresented in English)particleH853
קֹלָ֖/הּqōlāh
voice hernounH6963
aloud · crackling · cry · fame ···
וַ/תֵּֽבְךְּwatēbəkə
and she weptconjH1058
at all · complain · make lamentation · more ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
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She Could Not Bear to See the Child Die
Hagar puts Ishmael down under a bush because she can't bear to watch him die of thirst. She can't witness his death, so she abandons him to die out of her sight. That's the depth of her despair - she...
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