1 Samuel 1:5-11

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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.]

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rival <06869> [adversary.]

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

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

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

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weep <01058> [why weepest.]

better <02896> [am not.]

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

prayed <06419> [prayed.]

weeping uncontrollably <01058> [wept sore.]

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<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.]