Genesis 16:13

16:13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” ¹  for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!” ² 

Genesis 19:38

19:38 The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. ³  He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.

Genesis 29:32

29:32 So Leah became pregnant ⁴  and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, ⁵  for she said, “The Lord has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. ⁶  Surely my husband will love me now.”

Genesis 35:18

35:18 With her dying breath, ⁷  she named him Ben-Oni. ⁸  But his father called him Benjamin instead. ⁹ 

[16:13]  ¹ tn Heb “God of my seeing.” The pronominal suffix may be understood either as objective (“who sees me,” as in the translation) or subjective (“whom I see”).

[16:13]  ² tn Heb “after one who sees me.”

[19:38]  ³ sn The name Ben-Ammi means “son of my people.” Like the account of Moab’s birth, this story is probably included in the narrative to portray the Ammonites, another perennial enemy of Israel, in a negative light.

[29:32]  ⁵ tn Or “Leah conceived” (also in vv. 33, 34, 35).

[29:32]  ⁶ sn The name Reuben (רְאוּבֵן, rÿ’uven) means “look, a son.”

[29:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “looked on my affliction.”

[35:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the going out of her life, for she was dying.” Rachel named the child with her dying breath.

[35:18]  ⁸ sn The name Ben-Oni means “son of my suffering.” It is ironic that Rachel’s words to Jacob in Gen 30:1, “Give me children or I’ll die,” take a different turn here, for it was having the child that brought about her death.

[35:18]  ⁹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive.