Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And Abram will go in to Hagar, and she will conceive, and she will see that she conceived; and her mistress will be despised in her eyes.
New American Standard Bible
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
King James Version
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Holman Bible
He slept with
International Standard Version
He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
A Conservative Version
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
American Standard Version
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Amplified
He went in to [the bed of] Hagar, and she conceived; and when she realized that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress [regarding Sarai as insignificant because of her infertility].
Bible in Basic English
And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.
Darby Translation
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.
King James 2000
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And [when] she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.
Modern King James verseion
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her sight.
NET Bible
He had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.
New Heart English Bible
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
The Emphasized Bible
And he went in unto Hagar anti she conceived, - and when she saw that she had conceived, lightly esteemed, was her lady, in her eyes.
Webster
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
World English Bible
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Youngs Literal Translation
and he goeth in unto Hagar, and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes.
Themes
Contempt » Exemplified » Hagar
Ishmael » The outcast, life summarized » Born of a bigamous marriage, with a foreigner
Interlinear
Harah
Ra'ah
Harah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 16:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Sarai And Hagar
3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, will take Hagar the Egyptian, her maid servant, at the end of ten years of Abram's resting in the land of Canaan, and will give her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife. 4 And Abram will go in to Hagar, and she will conceive, and she will see that she conceived; and her mistress will be despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai will say to Abram, My wrong upon thee: I gave my maid servant into thy bosom, and she will see that she conceived, and I shall be despised in her eyes. Jehovah will judge between me and between thee.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6-8
Being grieved, her distress grieved her so that she was moved because Jehovah shut up about her womb
2 Samuel 6:16
And the ark of Jehovah was coming to the city of David, and Michal, Saul's daughter, looked forth without the window, and she will see king David being strengthened and leaping before Jehovah, and she will despise him in her heart.
Proverbs 30:20-21
So the way of a woman committing adultery; eating and wiping her mouth, and saying, I transgressed not
Proverbs 30:23
For a hated woman when she shall be married and a maid when she shall inherit to her mistress.
1 Corinthians 4:6
And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,