1 Samuel 1:8

Translations

Modern

“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Traditional

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

Literal

And Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Latin

Dixit ergo ei Elcana vir suus: Anna, cur fles? et quare non comedis? et quam ob rem affligitur cor tuum? numquid non ego melior tibi sum, quam decem filii?

Original

Hebrew

English

“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Notes

Theme notes and profiles

Infertility The Priestly Blessing

Related verses

Ruth 4:15
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
Isaiah 54:6
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
Job 6:14
A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
John 20:15
“Woman, why are you weeping?” Jesus asked. “Whom are you seeking?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.”
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
Psalm 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
John 20:13
“Woman, why are you weeping?” they asked. “Because they have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I do not know where they have put Him.”
2 Kings 8:12
“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
Isaiah 54:1
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
2 Samuel 12:16–17
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

Parallels

Psalm 113:1–9

People

Elkanah: The father of the prophet Samuel Hannah: The mother of the prophet Samuel

Glossary

Eli Hannah Joshua, Book of Phinehas Rathamin Samuel (Person) Samuel, Books of First and Second Shiloh

Topics

Barrenness: Miraculously Removed: Hannah Children: Anxiety of the Jews For Elkanah: Father of Samuel; a Descendant of the Preceding Hannah: Her Trials and Prayer, and Promise Husbands: Duty of, to Wives: To Comfort Them Samuel: Miraculous Birth of Satire: Hannah's Song of Exultation Over Peninnah Women: Peninnah, the Wife of Elkanah, in Her Jealous Taunting of Hannah

1 Samuel 1:8

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