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New American Standard Bible (1995)

1 Samuel 1:26

She said, "Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the LORD.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Consecration;   Eli;   Hannah;   Samuel;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Samuel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Oaths;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Peninnah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Dedication;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   High Priest;   Samuel, Books of;   Shiloh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Prayer;   Samuel, Books of;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hannah ;   Prayer;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eli;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Child;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Gesture;   Oath;   Samuel, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Please, my lord,” she said, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD.
King James Version
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
She said, "Excuse me, my lord. As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood with you in this place to pray to Yahweh.
English Standard Version
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord .
New Century Version
She said to Eli, "As surely as you live, sir, I am the same woman who stood near you praying to the Lord .
New English Translation
She said, "Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
Hannah said, "Oh, my lord! As [surely as] your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood beside you here, praying to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
And she said, "Pardon me, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And she said, Oh my Lord, as thy soule liueth, my lord, I am the woman that stoode with thee here praying vnto the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
"Sir," Hannah said, "a few years ago I stood here beside you and asked the Lord
Complete Jewish Bible
and she said, "My lord, as sure as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here near you, praying to Adonai .
Darby Translation
And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here to pray to Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
She said to him, "Pardon me, sir. I am the same woman who stood near you praying to the Lord . I promise that I am telling the truth.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Hannah said to Eli, I beseech you, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here, praying to the LORD for this boy.
Good News Translation
Hannah said to him, "Excuse me, sir. Do you remember me? I am the woman you saw standing here, praying to the Lord .
Literal Translation
And she said, O my lord, may your soul live! My lord, I am the woman who stood with you here to pray to Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And she sayde: O my lorde, as truly as thy soule lyueth my lorde, I am the woman that stode here by ye, and made intercession vnto the LORDE,
American Standard Version
And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And she sayd: Oh my Lorde, as thy soule lyueth my Lorde, I am the woman that stoode before thee here praying vnto the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she said: 'Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soule liueth, my lord, I am the woman, that stood by thee heere, praying vnto the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she said, I pray thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, I am the woman that stood in thy presence with thee while praying to the Lord.
English Revised Version
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
"Please, my lord," said Hannah, "as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Anna seide, My lord, Y biseche, that is, that this child be thi `disciple and seruaunt, thi soule lyueth; Y am that womman, that stood bifor thee here, and preiede the Lord;
Young's Literal Translation
and she saith, `O, my lord, thy soul liveth! my lord, I [am] the woman who stood with thee in this [place], to pray unto Jehovah;
Update Bible Version
And she said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood here by you, praying to Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she said, O my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I [am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying to the LORD.
World English Bible
She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
New King James Version
And she said, "O my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD.
New Living Translation
"Sir, do you remember me?" Hannah asked. "I am the very woman who stood here several years ago praying to the Lord .
New Life Bible
Hannah said, "O, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And she said - Pardon, my lord! By the life of thy soul, my lord, - I, am the woman who was standing near thee here, praying unto Yahweh:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

19 Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD, and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her. 20 It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked him of the LORD." 21 Then the man Elkanah went up with all his household to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "I will not go up until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and stay there forever." 23 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you. Remain until you have weaned him; only may the LORD confirm His word." So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24 Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh, although the child was young. 25 Then they slaughtered the bull, and brought the boy to Eli. 26 She said, "Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the LORD.27 "For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of Him. 28 "So I have also dedicated him to the LORD; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the LORD." And he worshiped the LORD there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as thy soul: 1 Samuel 17:55, 1 Samuel 20:3, Genesis 42:15, 2 Samuel 11:11, 2 Samuel 14:19, 2 Kings 2:2, 2 Kings 2:4, 2 Kings 2:6, 2 Kings 4:30

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:6 - God Genesis 30:17 - General 1 Samuel 25:26 - and as thy Psalms 116:1 - because Proverbs 13:12 - when John 16:21 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Genesis 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said, O my lord,.... According to the Targum, it is a supplication or request, I beseech thee, my lord; that is, to look upon her son, and take him under his care as his disciple or scholar, to instruct him in the law of God, and enter him into his service; to which Eli might be very backward and indifferent, and even treat it with some degree of contempt, that such a young Levite should be brought to him, when the soonest the Levites were admitted was at twenty five years of age:

as thy soul liveth, my lord; which Ben Gersom takes for the form of an oath, as if she swore to the truth of what follows by the life of the high priest; but as it was forbidden to swear by any but by the living God, by his life, it cannot be thought so good a woman as Hannah would be guilty of such a sinful and Heathenish practice; this rather is a wish or prayer for his life and health, and the continuance thereof, to bring up her son in the exercise of true religion:

I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord: by which it appears that Eli was now at the tabernacle, and in the same place he was, 1 Samuel 1:9 when she was some years ago praying near him, at the distance of four cubits, as the Jews say: she takes no notice of his mistaking her for a drunken woman, nor of his censure on her, and the reproof he gave her; but puts him in mind only of her praying to the Lord standing near to him, which made him take the more notice of her; standing is a prayer posture; the Jews say there is no standing but what is prayer, or prayer is meant by it; 1 Samuel 1:9- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As thy soul liveth - This oath is unique to the Books of Samuel, in which it occurs six times, and to the Books of Kings, in which however, it is found only once. See the note to 1 Samuel 1:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 1:26. As thy soul liveth — As sure as thou art a living soul, so surely am I the person who stood by thee here praying.


 
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