Genesis 21:14-16

21:14

Early <07925> [A.M. 2112. B.C. 1892. rose up.]

took <03947> [took.]

child <03206> [child.]

Or, youth, (see ver. 12, 20,) as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age.

sent <07971> [sent.]

wandering aimlessly <08582> [wandered.]

Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba.]

So called when Moses wrote; but not before Abraham's covenant with Abimelech, ver. 31. Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch.

21:15

water <04325> [the water.]

shoved ... child <07993 03206> [and she cast the child.]

Or, "and she sent the lad," to screen him from the intensity of the heat.

21:16

watch <07200> [Let.]

<05375> [lift.]