1 Samuel 1:13

Louis Segond

Anne parlait dans son coeur, et ne faisait que remuer les lèvres, mais on n'entendait point sa voix. Eli pensa qu'elle était ivre,

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Or, Anne parlait dans son cœur, remuant seulement les lèvres, et l'on n'entendait point sa voix. Héli crut donc qu'elle était ivre.

Darby's French Translation
Et Anne parlait dans son coeur; ses lèvres seulement remuaient, mais on n'entendait pas sa voix;

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or Anne parlait en son cœur; elle ne faisait que remuer ses lèvres, et on n'entendait point sa voix; c'est pourquoi Héli estima qu'elle était ivre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spake: Genesis 24:42-45, Nehemiah 2:4, Psalms 25:1, Romans 8:26

she had: Zechariah 9:15, Acts 2:13, 1 Corinthians 13:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:45 - speaking Psalms 5:1 - consider my

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Hannah, she spake in her heart,.... It was mental prayer she used, some ejaculations of her mind she sent up to God, which she was sensible were well known to him, and she needed not to express vocally:

only her lips moved; as her heart spoke, and sent up her petitions, as if she had used words and phrases in form:

but her voice was not heard: that she might not seem to be ostentatious in her prayer, and that she might not interrupt others in their devotions; and she knew that her voice was not necessary with respect to God:

therefore Eli thought she had been drunken; by the motions she made, and gestures she used, as if she was muttering something to herself, and by her long continuance therein, and it being after a feast she had been at with her husband, and the rest of the family; from all which Eli concluded this must be her case.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 1:13. Spake in her heart; only her lips moved — She prayed; her whole heart was engaged: and though she spake not with an audible voice, yet her lips formed themselves according to the pronunciation of the words which her heart uttered.