#geminism

Hagar “calls the name of Yahweh who has spoken to her” (16:13a). The expression is striking because it connotes naming rather than invocation. In other words, Hagar does not call upon the name of the deity (qr bšm yhwhy; cf. Gen. 13:8; 13:4). Instead she calls the name (qr’ šm-yhwh), a power attributed to no one else in all the Bible. “She calls the name of Yahweh who has spoken to her, ‘You are a God of seeing’” (16:13b). [...] Hagar is a theologian. Her naming unites the divine and human encounter: the God who sees and the God who is seen.