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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/genesis/21.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/genesis/21.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/genesis/21.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/genesis/21.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/genesis/21.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/genesis/21.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/genesis/21.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/genesis/21.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/genesis/21.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/genesis/21.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And the water in the skin was used up, and she left the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/genesis/21.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />When the water in the skin was finished, she put the child under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/genesis/21.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was all gone, Hagar abandoned the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/genesis/21.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/genesis/21.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/genesis/21.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/genesis/21.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and after they had run out of water, Hagar put her son under a bush. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/genesis/21.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/genesis/21.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />When the water in the container was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/genesis/21.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />When the water was all gone, she left the child under a bush <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/genesis/21.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/genesis/21.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/genesis/21.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/genesis/21.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The water in the skin was gone, and she shoved the boy under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/genesis/21.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/genesis/21.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/genesis/21.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/genesis/21.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she placeth the lad under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/genesis/21.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the waters shall be spent in the water skin, and she will cast the child under one of the shrubs.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/genesis/21.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/genesis/21.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And when the water in the skin had been consumed, she set aside the boy, under one of the trees that were there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/21.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />the water in the skin was used up. So she put the child down under one of the bushes,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/21.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/genesis/21.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And the water in the skin was spent, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/genesis/21.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And the waters from the skin were finished and she laid the boy under one of the shrubs.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/genesis/21.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/genesis/21.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the water failed out of the skin, and she cast the child under a fir tree.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=4648" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/genesis/21.htm">Sarah Turns Against Hagar</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">14</span>Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba. <span class="reftext">15</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: ham·ma·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">When the water</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: min- (Prep) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">in</a> <a href="/hebrew/2573.htm" title="2573: ha·ḥê·meṯ (Art:: N-fs) -- A water skin. From the same as chowmah; a skin bottle.">the skin</a> <a href="/hebrew/3615.htm" title="3615: way·yiḵ·lū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent. A primitive root; to end, whether intransitive or transitived.">was gone,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7993.htm" title="7993: wat·taš·lêḵ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To throw, fling, cast. A primitive root; to throw out, down or away.">she left</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3206.htm" title="3206: hay·ye·leḏ (Art:: N-ms) -- Child, son, boy, youth. From yalad; something born, i.e. A lad or offspring.">the boy</a> <a href="/hebrew/8478.htm" title="8478: ta·ḥaṯ (Prep) -- Underneath, below, instead of. From the same as Towach; the bottom; only adverbially, below, in lieu of, etc.">under</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’a·ḥaḏ (Number-msc) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">one</a> <a href="/hebrew/7880.htm" title="7880: haś·śî·ḥim (Art:: N-mp) -- A bush, shrub, plant. From siyach; a shoot, i.e. shrubbery.">of the bushes.</a> </span><span class="reftext">16</span>Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/17-3.htm">Exodus 17:3</a></span><br />But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/20-2.htm">Numbers 20:2-5</a></span><br />Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron. / The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD! / Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/8-15.htm">Deuteronomy 8:15</a></span><br />He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/63-1.htm">Psalm 63:1</a></span><br />A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm">Isaiah 41:17</a></span><br />The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/14-3.htm">Jeremiah 14:3</a></span><br />The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm">Lamentations 4:4</a></span><br />The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3</a></span><br />Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Matthew 4:2</a></span><br />After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-32.htm">Matthew 15:32</a></span><br />Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/8-2.htm">Mark 8:2-3</a></span><br />“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. / If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/4-2.htm">Luke 4:2</a></span><br />where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/4-13.htm">John 4:13-14</a></span><br />Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. / But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/7-37.htm">John 7:37-38</a></span><br />On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. / Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-35.htm">Romans 8:35</a></span><br />Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.</p><p class="hdg">the water.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/21-14.htm">Genesis 21:14</a></b></br> And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave <i>it</i> unto Hagar, putting <i>it</i> on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/15-22.htm">Exodus 15:22-25</a></b></br> So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/17-1.htm">Exodus 17:1-3</a></b></br> And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and <i>there was</i> no water for the people to drink… </p><p class="hdg">and she cast the child.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/21-14.htm">Bottle</a> <a href="/genesis/21-14.htm">Boy</a> <a href="/matthew/7-16.htm">Bushes</a> <a href="/genesis/21-10.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/genesis/21-14.htm">Child</a> <a href="/genesis/19-17.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/luke/22-45.htm">Exhausted</a> <a href="/luke/7-38.htm">Flask</a> <a href="/genesis/21-12.htm">Lad</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-9.htm">Placeth</a> <a href="/matthew/13-32.htm">Shrubs</a> <a href="/genesis/21-14.htm">Skin</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-3.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/genesis/18-8.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/genesis/18-18.htm">Used</a> <a href="/genesis/21-14.htm">Water</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/21-19.htm">Bottle</a> <a href="/genesis/21-16.htm">Boy</a> <a href="/exodus/22-6.htm">Bushes</a> <a href="/genesis/31-38.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/genesis/21-16.htm">Child</a> <a href="/genesis/31-15.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/genesis/47-13.htm">Exhausted</a> <a href="/genesis/21-19.htm">Flask</a> <a href="/genesis/21-17.htm">Lad</a> <a href="/genesis/22-6.htm">Placeth</a> <a href="/job/30-7.htm">Shrubs</a> <a href="/genesis/21-19.htm">Skin</a> <a href="/genesis/24-54.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/genesis/21-33.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/genesis/28-19.htm">Used</a> <a href="/genesis/21-19.htm">Water</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 21</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/21-1.htm">Isaac is born, and circumcised.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/21-6.htm">Sarah's joy.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/21-8.htm">Isaac is weaned.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/21-9.htm">Hagar and Ishmael sent away.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/21-15.htm">Hagar in distress.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/21-17.htm">The angel relieves and comforts her.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/21-23.htm">Abimelech's covenant with Abraham at Beersheba.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the ancient Near East, water was a precious and often scarce resource, especially in desert regions like Beersheba, where this event took place. The depletion of water signifies a critical moment of survival, emphasizing human vulnerability and dependence on God's provision. This situation echoes the Israelites' later experiences in the wilderness, where they too faced a lack of water and relied on divine intervention (<a href="/exodus/17.htm">Exodus 17:1-7</a>).<p><b>she left the boy under one of the bushes</b><br>Hagar's action of leaving Ishmael under a bush reflects her desperation and inability to watch her son die from thirst. The bush, likely a desert shrub, provided minimal shade and protection, symbolizing the limited human means available in times of crisis. This moment foreshadows God's intervention, as He hears the cries of Ishmael, much like He hears the cries of His people throughout Scripture (<a href="/exodus/3-7.htm">Exodus 3:7</a>). The act of leaving Ishmael also parallels Abraham's earlier act of faith when he was willing to sacrifice Isaac, trusting in God's provision (<a href="/genesis/22.htm">Genesis 22:1-14</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hagar.htm">Hagar</a></b><br>An Egyptian maidservant of Sarah, Abraham's wife, and the mother of Ishmael. She finds herself in a desperate situation in the wilderness.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/ishmael.htm">Ishmael</a></b><br>The son of Abraham and Hagar. He is a young boy at this point, facing a life-threatening situation due to lack of water.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness_of_beersheba.htm">The Wilderness of Beersheba</a></b><br>A desert region where Hagar and Ishmael wander after being sent away by Abraham. It symbolizes desolation and testing.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_water_skin.htm">The Water Skin</a></b><br>Represents the limited human resources and the eventual depletion of what Hagar relied on for survival.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_bush.htm">The Bush</a></b><br>A place of temporary shelter and a symbol of Hagar's despair as she distances herself from Ishmael, unable to watch him die.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god.htm">Dependence on God</a></b><br>Human resources are finite, but God's provision is infinite. Like Hagar, we must learn to rely on God when our own resources run dry.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness.htm">God's Faithfulness</a></b><br>Despite the dire circumstances, God remains faithful to His promises. He hears the cries of the afflicted and provides in unexpected ways.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_desperation.htm">Hope in Desperation</a></b><br>Even in moments of despair, God is present. Hagar's account reminds us that God sees and hears us, offering hope and deliverance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/parental_responsibility_and_trust.htm">Parental Responsibility and Trust</a></b><br>Hagar's actions reflect a deep maternal instinct, yet she must trust God with her son's life. Parents today are called to care for their children while trusting God with their futures.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_wilderness.htm">Spiritual Wilderness</a></b><br>Times of spiritual dryness can lead to deeper encounters with God. The wilderness is not just a place of testing but also of divine revelation and growth.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/21.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) <span class= "bld">She cast the child under one of the shrubs.</span>--The act was one of despair. Ishmael, though seventeen years of age, had not yet come to his strength, and at a time when human life was so prolonged that forty was the usual age for marriage, was probably not as capable of bearing fatigue as a young man nearly grown up would be in our days. He thus became exhausted, and apparently fainted; and his mother, after trying in vain to support him, cast him down in anguish, and abandoned herself to her grief.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/21.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 15.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And the water was spent in</span> (literally, <span class="accented">from</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>the bottle</span>, - so that the wanderers became exhausted, and were in danger of fainting through thirst - <span class="cmt_word">and she cast the child</span> - a translation which certainly conveys an erroneous impression, first of Ishmael, who was not an infant, but a grown lad (<span class="accented">vide</span> supra, Ver. 14), and secondly of Ishmael's mother, whom it represents as acting with violence, if not with inhumanity; whereas the sense probably is that, having, as long as her rapidly diminishing strength permitted, supported her fainting son, she at length suddenly, through feebleness, released his nerveless hand as he fell, and in despair, finding herself unable to give him further assistance, left him, as she believed, to die where he had flung himself in his intolerable anguish - <span class="cmt_word">under one of the shrubs</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/genesis/21-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">When the water</span><br /><span class="heb">הַמַּ֖יִם</span> <span class="translit">(ham·ma·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> </span><span class="str2">Water, juice, urine, semen</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="heb">מִן־</span> <span class="translit">(min-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> </span><span class="str2">A part of, from, out of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the skin</span><br /><span class="heb">הַחֵ֑מֶת</span> <span class="translit">(ha·ḥê·meṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2573.htm">Strong's 2573: </a> </span><span class="str2">A skin bottle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">was gone,</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּכְל֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiḵ·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3615.htm">Strong's 3615: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent</span><br /><br /><span class="word">she left</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתַּשְׁלֵ֣ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(wat·taš·lêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7993.htm">Strong's 7993: </a> </span><span class="str2">To throw out, down, away</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the boy</span><br /><span class="heb">הַיֶּ֔לֶד</span> <span class="translit">(hay·ye·leḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3206.htm">Strong's 3206: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something born, a lad, offspring</span><br /><br /><span class="word">under</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּ֖חַת</span> <span class="translit">(ta·ḥaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8478.htm">Strong's 8478: </a> </span><span class="str2">The bottom, below, in lieu of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">one</span><br /><span class="heb">אַחַ֥ד</span> <span class="translit">(’a·ḥaḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> </span><span class="str2">United, one, first</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the bushes.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשִּׂיחִֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(haś·śî·ḥim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7880.htm">Strong's 7880: </a> </span><span class="str2">A bush, shrub, plant</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/genesis/21-15.htm">Genesis 21:15 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/genesis/21-15.htm">OT Law: Genesis 21:15 The water in the bottle was spent (Gen. 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