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Hagar 
Hagar is the mother of Ishmael, the first son of Abram (later Abraham). When his wife, Sarai (later Sarah) realizes that her own scheme succesfully results in Hagar's pregnancy, she pesters her until she leaves. Hagar meets the Angel of YHWH at the well of Beer lahai roi, and He sends her back. When Sarah gives birth to Isaac, she objects to Hagar and her son Ishmael, and a heavy hearted Abraham sends her away for good.
Hagar travels south, possibly to go home to Egypt, but loses her way. The verb used to describe her 'wandering' about in the wilderness of Beersheba is  (ta'a 2531), to err, go astray. A derivation of this verb is  (to'a 2531a), error.
Hagar wanders the desert until her supplies run out. Desponded and exhausted, Hagar abandons her son so that she won't have to watch him die, and sits down a bow shot away from the boy to cry. Curiously, not her cries but the cries of the boy reach heaven, and God shows up. For the second time the Angel of YHWH speaks to Hagar, and promises her that Ishmael will be a great nation. God opens her eyes and she sees the well of Beersheba. This is fortunate for two reasons. First of all she and Ishmael now have water, but they also know where they are again.
Quickened Hagar and Ishmael resume their journey. Ishmael becomes an archer and lives in the wilderness of Paran (in the Sinai desert between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba) with his Egyptian wife whom Hagar has obtained for him.
Hagar becomes the grandmother of twelve princes, who form the great nation that God promised. That nation is not really named in Scriptures but their function may be explained by the amazing parallel of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles and the family of Abraham.
Although Hagar is an Egyptian, her name is Semitic. It comes from the verb (hgr 470) which is not used in the Bible and its meaning is subsequently unknown. NOBSE and TWOTOT insist that the verb means to flee. BDB refers to the Arabic equivalent, which means forsake or retire. An Arabic noun derived of this root serves as the name for Mohammed's famous flight, the Hegira. Another name derived of this same root is the tribal name of the Hagrites (Psalm 83:7, 1 Chr 27:31).
A curious detail is that the reticent root (hgr 470) looks like a construct of the the definite article  (ha 459), and a trace of the verb  (garar 386), drag, drag away. Another look-alike is plus  (gur 330), abide, be gathered, be a stranger;  (ger 330a) means sojourner.
The name Hagar means Flight thanks to a very rare verb, but is also highly similar to the more common words The Sojourner/ The Dragged Away One.
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