Moses a Descendant of Hagar?

...she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar (16:1)

הגר or Hagar: The word contains the Hebrew word גר for stranger. In this weeks Parasha, God tells Abram that his descendants, the Children of Israel, will be גרים or strangers for 400 years in a foreign land.

Rashi comments that Hagar was actually Pharaohs daughter, for it says ולה שפחה מצרית or she had an Egyptian maid, for she was a servant only to Sarah.

When Pharaoh saw the miracles that God performed for Abram and Sarah, he said to his daughter, Better that my daughter should be a maid in this house than the mistress of her own house.

It is interesting to attempt to understand why God organized Abram to marry Hagar and to have descendants through the daughter of Pharaoh.

One Scholar attempts to make a connection: It is important in Jewish history to understand that Hagar was indeed Pharaohs daughter because later on in Exodus, when the children of Israel are slaves in the land of Egypt, Pharaohs daughter went down to bathe by the river and her maidens walked along the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and she sent her maidservant and she took it. She opened it and saw him, the child, and behold! a youth was crying. She took pity on him and said, this is one of the Hebrew boys (Exodus 2:5-2:6)

The Hebrew boy who Pharaohs daughter scooped out of the river, will be Moses, who will go on to lead the exodus out of Egypt. Perhaps Pharaohs daughter who saved Moses from the river, is a descendent from Hagar and Abram.