Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
⛓ Read Genesis 16 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Your request has been heard... you shall call his name John' replays the angelic birth-announcement to Hagar: 'the Lord has heard your affliction... you shall call his name Ishmael' (Genesis 16:11). The hearing + naming clause is the formal core of the OT annunciation type-scene.
High confidenceThe Hagar annunciation — 'you shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction' — is the closest formal template for v.21's structure ('she shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save…'): pregnancy + naming + 'for/because' rationale tying name to meaning. Verbal/syntactic parallel gives this allusion-level volume.
Medium confidence