El Roi — The God Who Sees Me
אֵל רֳאִי
The God Who Sees Me — the only divine name in Scripture given by a woman: Hagar, alone in the wilderness.
A runaway slave, pregnant and cast out, names God — and heaven accepts the name forever. Jewish and Christian teaching alike treasure this as proof that no one is invisible to God, and that the lowest voice can name the Highest.
First occurrence
Gen 16:13 — 'You are El Roi… Have I here seen Him who sees me?'
Key passages
Gen 16:14 — The well named Beer-lahai-roi — 'well of the Living One who sees me'
In the Greek Scriptures
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