1 Samuel 1:2-28

1:2

two <08147> [two.]

Hannah ............... Hannah <02584> [but.]

1:3

<03117> [yearly. Heb. from year to year.]

worship <07812> [to worship.]

Shiloh <07887> [Shiloh.]

two <08147> [And the.]

1:4

sacrifice <02076> [offered.]

1:5

double portion <0259 0639 04490> [a worthy portion. or, a double portion.]

The Hebrew phrase, {manah achath appayim,} is correctly rendered by Gesenius, {ein Stud fur zwei personen, doppelle Portion,} "a portion for two persons, a double portion;" for {aph} in Hebrew, and [prosopon] in Greek, which literally mean a face, are used for a person.

loved <0157> [he loved.]

not enabled ... to have children <05462> [shut up.]

1:6

rival <06869> [adversary.]

upset ...... worry <03707 03708> [provoked her. Heb. angered her.]

1:7

year ... year <08141> [year.]

Whenever ... went up <01767 05927> [when she. or, from the time that she. Heb. from her going up.]

1:8

weep <01058> [why weepest.]

better <02896> [am not.]

1:9

1:10

very upset <05315 04751> [in bitterness of soul. Heb. bitter of soul.]

prayed <06419> [prayed.]

weeping uncontrollably <01058> [wept sore.]

1:11

<05087> [vowed.]

look <07200> [look.]

remembering <02142> [remember.]

child <0582 02233> [a man child. Heb. seed of men. I will give.]

Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.

<04177> [there.]

1:12

praying <06419 07235> [continued praying. Heb. multiplied to pray.]

1:13

speaking <01696> [spake.]

drunk <07910> [she had.]

1:14

get drunk <07937> [How long.]

Put away <05493> [put away.]

1:15

lord <0113> [No, my Lord.]

stress <07186 07307> [of a sorrowful spirit. Heb. hard of spirit. poured.]

1:16

woman <01323> [a daughter.]

deep <07230> [out of.]

pain <07879> [complaint. or, meditation.]

1:17

<03212> [Go.]

God <0430> [the God.]

1:18

servant <08198> [Let thine.]

way <03212 01870> [went her.]

1:19

early <07925> [they rose.]

marital relations <03045> [knew.]

Lord ................... Lord <03068> [and the Lord.]

1:20

time <08622 03117> [when the time was come about. Heb. in revolution of days.]

Samuel. that is, Asked of God. Because.

1:21

1:22

bring <0935> [then.]

remain <03427> [and there.]

from then on <05704 05769> [for ever.]

1:23

Do .... think <06213 05869> [Do what.]

Lord <03068> [the Lord.]

nursed ... son <03243 01121> [son suck.]

1:24

took ... up <05927> [A.M. 2839. B.C. 1165. An. Ex. Is. 326. she took.]

three bulls <06499 07969> [three bullocks.]

The LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, read "a bullock of three years old;" which is probably correct, as we read (ver. 25) that they slew {eth happar,} "the bullock."

house <01004> [house.]

1:25

brought <0935> [brought.]

1:26

alive <05315> [as thy soul.]

1:27

boy <05288> [For this.]

Lord <03068> [and the Lord.]

1:28

[lent him. or, returned him, whom I have obtained by petition, to the Lord.]

The word {hishilteehoo}, "I have lent him," is the {Hiphil} conjugation of {shu„l,} "he asked," (ver. 27,) and refers to the name of Samuel.

dedicate ............ dedicated <07592> [he shall be. or, he whom I have obtained by petition shall be returned. he worshipped.]