📖WEB · 1 Samuel 1:5
What does 1 Samuel 1:5 mean?
"but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb."
— 1 Samuel 1:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;
but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
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