Here is one of the strangest verses in the Targum, and one of the most historically suggestive. In Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 21:21, Ishmael grows up in the wilderness of Pharan and marries a woman named Adisha. He later divorces her. Then his mother Hagar arranges a second marriage — to a woman named Phatima, from the land of Egypt.

The names are not biblical. They are extra-textual insertions from a later Near Eastern context, preserved in the Aramaic paraphrase that received its final shape perhaps as late as the seventh or eighth century CE. The Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan frequently absorbs names and details from the cultural landscape around it, and this verse is one of the most visible fingerprints.

The older midrashic tradition in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer (chapter 30, compiled c. 750–900 CE in the Land of Israel) preserves a parallel: Ishmael's first wife is rejected for failing the test of hospitality when Abraham visits; his second wife passes. The Targum seems to know this tradition and compresses it.

The Maggidim read this verse as a portrait of how households reform themselves. A first marriage fails the test; a mother intervenes; a second marriage succeeds. The takeaway: even outside the covenant line, the matriarch's wisdom rebuilds the home.