Peter
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the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God
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« on: July 09, 2010, 03:41:18 PM » |
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Gen 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. and she cast
Old Testament Hebrew Definition:
07993 shalak {shaw-lak}
a primitive root; TWOT - 2398; v
AV - cast 77, cast out 15, cast away 11, cast down 11, cast forth 4,
cast off 2, adventured 1, hurl 1, misc 3; 125
1) to throw, cast, hurl, fling
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to throw, cast, throw away, cast off, shed, cast down
1a2) to cast (lots) (fig)
1b) (Hophal)
1b1) to be thrown, be cast
1b2) to be cast forth or out
1b3) to be cast down
1b4) to be cast (metaph)
Whether Ishmael was collapsing against her, and she slung him around and down into the shade under shrubs, or even if she was carrying the boy as he was thirsting to death (she was after all Sarah's servant, so she would have likely been muscular from the work) there are lots of ways to reasonably envision this account. Even simply casting him out of her sight, or casting him away.
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