撒母耳记上 1:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

她就懷孕；時候到了，就生了一個兒子，哈拿給他起名叫撒母耳，因為她說：“他是我從耶和華那裡求來的。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
哈 拿 就 怀 孕 。 日 期 满 足 ， 生 了 一 个 儿 子 ， 给 他 起 名 叫 撒 母 耳 ， 说 ： 这 是 我 从 耶 和 华 那 里 求 来 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Early the next morning Elkanah's family got up and worshiped the Lord . Then they went back home to Ramah. Elkanah had sexual relations with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her. ²⁰ So Hannah became pregnant, and in time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him." ²¹ Every year Elkanah went with his whole family to Shiloh to offer sacrifices and to keep the promise he had made to God. ²² But one time Hannah did not go with him. She told him, "When the boy is old enough to eat solid food, I will take him to Shiloh. Then I will give him to the Lord , and he will always live there." ²³ Elkanah, Hannah's husband, said to her, "Do what you think is best. You may stay home until the boy is old enough to eat. May the Lord do what you have said." So Hannah stayed at home to nurse her son until he was old enough to eat. ²⁴ When Samuel was old enough to eat, Hannah took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh, along with a three-year-old bull, one-half bushel of flour, and a leather bag filled with wine. ²⁵ After they had killed the bull for the sacrifice, Hannah brought Samuel to Eli. ²⁶ She said to Eli, "As surely as you live, sir, I am the same woman who stood near you praying to the Lord . ²⁷ I prayed for this child, and the Lord answered my prayer and gave him to me. ²⁸ Now I give him back to the Lord . He will belong to the Lord all his life." And he worshiped the Lord there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when the time was come about: Heb. in revolution of days, Samuel. that is, Asked of God. Because. Genesis 4:25, Genesis 5:29, Genesis 16:11, Genesis 29:32-35, Genesis 30:6-21, Genesis 41:51, Genesis 41:52, Exodus 2:10, Exodus 2:22, Matthew 1:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:20 - Adam Genesis 29:31 - he opened Genesis 30:17 - General Genesis 30:22 - remembered Genesis 48:9 - my sons Judges 13:3 - but thou 1 Samuel 2:5 - the barren 1 Samuel 2:21 - visited 2 Kings 4:17 - General 1 Chronicles 6:27 - Elkanah 1 Chronicles 6:33 - Shemuel Psalms 127:3 - children Isaiah 7:14 - shall call Luke 1:13 - thy prayer Luke 1:25 - hath Hebrews 11:32 - Samuel

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the air and placed some of the water above the air and some below it.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.

Genesis 1:22
God blessed them and said, "Have many young ones so that you may grow in number. Fill the water of the seas, and let the birds grow in number on the earth."

Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth be filled with animals, each producing more of its own kind. Let there be tame animals and small crawling animals and wild animals, and let each produce more of its kind." And it happened.

Genesis 1:25
So God made the wild animals, the tame animals, and all the small crawling animals to produce more of their own kind. God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:30
I have given all the green plants as food for every wild animal, every bird of the air, and every small crawling animal." And it happened.

Genesis 2:19
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.

Genesis 8:17
Bring every animal out of the boat with you—the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. Let them have many young ones so that they might grow in number."

1 Kings 4:33
He taught about many kinds of plants—everything from the great cedar trees of Lebanon to the weeds that grow out of the walls. He also taught about animals, birds, crawling things, and fish.

Psalms 148:10
wild animals and all cattle, crawling animals and birds,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about, after Hannah had conceived,.... Or, "at the revolutions of days" b; at the end of a year, of a complete year, as Ben Melech, from their return from Shiloh; for it might be some time after their return that she conceived; or rather the sense is, that at nine months' end, the usual time of a woman's going with child from her conception, which is the date here given:

that she bare a son: was brought to bed of a son:

and called his name Samuel, [saying], because I have asked him of the Lord; one would think rather his name should have been Saul, for the reason given; but, as Ben Gersom observes, givers of names are not always grammatically strict and critical in them, or in the etymology of them, as in the names of Reuben and Noah, in which he instances; and this may be the rather overlooked in a woman, than in a man of learning. According to Kimchi, it is as if it was Saulmeel; that is, "asked of God", and by contraction Samuel; but Hillerus c gives a better account of this name, and takes it to be composed of Saul-mul-el, "asked before God", "in the sight of God", "before the ark of God". This name Hannah gave her son (for sometimes the father, and sometimes the mother, gave the name) in memory of the wonderful favour and goodness of God in granting her request; and to impress her own mind with a sense of the obligation she lay under, to perform her vow, and to engage her son the more readily to give up himself to the service of God, when he reflected on his name, and the reason of it.

b לתקפות הימים "in revolutionibus dierum", Montanus; so Piscator. c Onomastic. Sacr. p. 418, 419, 487.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Samuel - i. e. heard of God, because given in answer to prayer. The names “Ishmael” and “Elishama” have the same etymology.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 1:20. Called his name Samuel — As she gave this name to her son because she had asked him of the Lord, the word שמואל Shemuel must be here considerably contracted; if it express this sentiment, the component parts of it are the following: שאול מאל shaul meEl, "asked of God.' This name would put both the mother and the son in continual remembrance of the Divine interposition at his birth. See on 1 Samuel 1:28.