1 Samuel 1:6

1:6 Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, for the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

Luke 1:25

1:25 “This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”


tn Heb “and her rival wife grieved her, even [with] grief so as to worry her.”

tn Grk “Thus.”

tn Grk “in the days.”

tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).

sn Barrenness was often seen as a reproach or disgrace (Lev 20:20-21; Jer 22:30), but now at her late age (the exact age is never given in Luke’s account), God had miraculously removed it (see also Luke 1:7).

tn Grk “among men”; but the context clearly indicates a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") here.