Genesis 21:9
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And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:

Sarah.

Genesis 16:3-6,15 She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife. . . .

Genesis 17:20 And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Egyptian.

Genesis 16:1,15 Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar, . . .

mocking.

2 Kings 2:23,24 And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head. . . .

2 Chronicles 30:10 So the posts went speedily from city to city, through the land of Ephraim, and of Manasses, even to Zabulon, whilst they laughed at them and mocked them.

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Nehemiah 4:1-5 And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were building the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed at the Jews. . . .

Job 30:1 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Psalm 42:10 Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?

Psalm 44:13,14 Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them. . . .

Proverbs 20:11 By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

Lamentations 1:7 Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand, and there was no helper; the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.

Galatians 4:22,29 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman. . . .

Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons.

Context
Sarah Turns Against Hagar
9And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:10Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.…
Cross References
Galatians 4:29
But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was after the spirit: so also it is now.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

Genesis 16:4
And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.

Genesis 21:8
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.

Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.

Lexicon
But Sarah
שָׂרָ֜ה (śā·rāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8283: Sarah -- 'princess', a wife of Abraham

saw that
וַתֵּ֨רֶא (wat·tê·re)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

the son
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

whom
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

Hagar
הָגָ֧ר (hā·ḡār)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1904: Hagar

the Egyptian
הַמִּצְרִ֛ית (ham·miṣ·rîṯ)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4713: Egyptian -- inhabitant of Egypt

had borne
יָלְדָ֥ה (yā·lə·ḏāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

to Abraham
לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם (lə·’aḇ·rā·hām)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

was mocking [her son],
מְצַחֵֽק׃ (mə·ṣa·ḥêq)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6711: To laugh outright, to sport


Additional Translations
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born to Abraham, mocking.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

And Sarrha having seen the son of Agar the Egyptian who was born to Abraam, sporting with Isaac her son,

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

and Sarah seeth the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she hath borne to Abraham, mocking,
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