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1 Samuel 1:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.” "

1 Samuel 1:20

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18 She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

19 They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

20 When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”

21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

22 But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and stay there forever.”

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Hannah

  • Elkanah, father of Samuel Elkanah is the husband of Hannah.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:19
    They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
    Read 1 Samuel 1:19
  • Samuel Hannah is the mother of Samuel.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:20
    When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”
    Read 1 Samuel 1:20

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Samuel

  • Elkanah, father of Samuel Elkanah is the father of Samuel.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 1:20
    They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
    Read 1 Samuel 1:19
    When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”
    Read 1 Samuel 1:20
  • Hannah Hannah is the mother of Samuel.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:20
    When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”
    Read 1 Samuel 1:20

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Selected relationship data adapted from BibleData, Brady Stephenson (CC BY 4.0). Reviewed, translated and supplemented with Scripture references.

Related Verses

1 Samuel 2:21

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"The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD."

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Judges 13:24

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"The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and the LORD blessed him."

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1 Samuel 2:26

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"The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD and also with men."

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Genesis 29:33

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"She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon."

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2 Kings 4:17

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"The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her."

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Genesis 29:35

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"She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing."

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1 Samuel 1:1

"Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite."

1 Samuel 1:2

"He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children."

1 Samuel 1:3

"This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there."

1 Samuel 1:4

"When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;"

1 Samuel 1:5

"but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb."

1 Samuel 1:6

"Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb."

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