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Gen.16:2. “The Lord has imprisoned me so that I will not give birth. So, go in to my maid, so that I may have sons from her.”
Particular attention should be paid to the fact that the “birth” of sons in the Hebrew text is written as “building.” Because it says: “Come in to my maid, if in this way I can be built from her.” And maybe this is what is meant in the Book of Exodus: “And God blessed the midwives, and they built themselves houses” (Exod. I, 20-21).
Gen.16:7. “And the Angel of the Lord found her at a spring of water in the desert, at a spring on the road to Sur.”
Consequently, the Egyptian woman was in a hurry to follow the road to Sur, which leads through the desert to Egypt.
Gen.16:11. “And she named him Ishmael, because [she said] the Lord heard my humility.”
Ishmael (יִשְׁמָעֵ ֔ אל) means "listening to God."
Gen.16:12. “He will be a rude person. His hands are on everyone, and everyone’s hands are on him. And he will live in the presence of all his brothers."
Instead of "rude man", the Hebrew text says phara (פֶּ ֣ רֶא), which translates as "wild ass". This means that the descendants of Ishmael will live in the desert, without a permanent place of residence. That is, these are Saracen nomads who raid all the peoples bordering the desert, and therefore everyone fights against them.