Atlas Biblica

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    Hagar

    הָגָרἌγαρ

    Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian maidservant, bore Abraham a son named Ishmael and is also mentioned in Paul's allegory in Galatians.

    verses
    12
    first named
    Genesis 16:1
    last named
    Galatians 4:25
    period
    the Patriarchs
    role
    Woman

    Description

    Who was Hagar?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Hagar was an Egyptian maidservant of Sarah, Abraham's wife. When Sarah was unable to conceive, she gave Hagar to Abraham as a concubine to bear a child on her behalf, following the custom of the time (Gen.16.1-3). Hagar conceived and gave birth to a son named Ishmael (Gen.16.15). However, tensions arose between Hagar and Sarah, leading Sarah to mistreat Hagar, who then fled into the wilderness (Gen.16.4-6). An angel of the Lord appeared to Hagar, instructing her to return and submit to Sarah, and promising that her descendants would be greatly multiplied (Gen.16.7-10). Years later, after Isaac was born to Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael were sent away by Abraham at Sarah's insistence (Gen.21.9-14). God heard Ishmael's cry in the wilderness and provided for him and Hagar, promising to make Ishmael into a great nation (Gen.21.17-21). In the New Testament, Paul uses Hagar and Sarah as an allegory, with Hagar representing the old covenant of slavery under the law, and Sarah representing the new covenant of freedom through Christ (Gal.4.24-25). Hagar's story illustrates God's care for the oppressed and His faithfulness to His promises, even to those outside the primary line of Abraham's descendants.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Hagar 8 of 8 entities the graph connects to Hagar, in 2 groups: kinship 2, events 6. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AbrahamPartner of · 8 events · 275 versesIshmaelMother of · 3 events · 27 versesKinshipLORD1 event · 1,004 versesJerusalem1 event · 888 versesEgypt1 event · 649 versesWater1 event · 230 versesSarah7 events · 48 versesSinai1 event · 43 versesEventsHagar

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    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Hagar happens All 2 places the claims about Hagar reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Beersheba, Egypt. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Hagar there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.BeershebaEgypt
    the PatriarchsAll 2 places the claims about Hagar reach

    The pattern

    Where Hagar is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 12 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS10 VERSESGALATIANS2 VERSES46 books and 1,041 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 12 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS10 VERSESGALATIANS2 VERSES46 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Hagar is named in 12 verses, and the name is written 14 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 12, across 2 books. The name is written 14 times in them.

    1. Genesis10 verses

      16:116:316:416:816:1516:1621:921:1421:1725:12

    2. Galatians2 verses

      4:244:25

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Abraham and IshmaelIsaacSon of Abraham; father of Jacob and Esau.via Abraham and IshmaelIshbakSon of Abraham and Keturah.via Abraham and IshmaelJokshanA son of Abraham and Keturahvia Abraham and IshmaelMedanSon of Abraham and Keturah.via Abraham and IshmaelMidianSon of Abraham and Keturah; father of the Midianites.via Abraham and IshmaelShuahSon of Abraham and Keturah, ancestor of a tribe.via Abraham and IshmaelZimranSon of Abraham and Keturahvia AbrahamCovenantCovenant is a thing attested across 10 verses, connecting 2 pageable entities.via AbrahamDavidAnointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ
    ElsewhereGenealogy of HagarEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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