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1 Samuele 1:8

Elkana, suo marito, le diceva: "Anna, perché piangi? Perché non mangi? Perché è triste il cuor tuo? Non ti valgo io più di dieci figliuoli?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barrenness;   Elkanah;   Hannah;   Samuel;   Satire;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Husbands;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Peninnah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hannah;   Marriage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Heart;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elkanah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mother;   Samuel, Books of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elkanah ;   Hannah ;   Shiloh ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eli;   Smith Bible Dictionary - El'kanah,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Grief;   Male;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ten;  

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Allora suo marito Elkanah le disse: "Anna, perch piangi? Perch non mangi? Perch triste il tuo cuore? Non sono io per te meglio di dieci figli?".
Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed Elcana, suo marito, le disse: Anna, perchè piangi, e perchè non mangi, e perchè stai di mal’animo? non ti valgo io meglio che dieci figliuoli?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

why weepest: 2 Samuel 12:16, 2 Samuel 12:17, 2 Kings 8:12, Job 6:14, John 20:13, John 20:15, 1 Thessalonians 5:14

am not: Ruth 4:15, Psalms 43:4, Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 54:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:7 - Wherefore Leviticus 10:19 - should 2 Kings 4:14 - she hath no child 2 Kings 6:28 - What aileth thee Psalms 102:4 - so that Isaiah 56:5 - better Acts 21:13 - to weep

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou?.... Since it was a time of rejoicing, as every festival was, especially at the ingathering of the fruits of the earth:

and why eatest thou not? since they were at a feast, and she had the best part and portion of the provision:

and why is thy heart grieved? to such a degree that she could neither eat nor drink:

am not I better to thee than ten sons? which, as Jarchi says, Peninnah had borne to him; his meaning is, that the share she had in his love and affections ought to have been esteemed by her more than if she had ten or many children by him; and it suggests that Peninnah would have been glad to have such a share in his affections as Hannah had; and it would have been more eligible to her, than to have borne him so many children as she had.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 1:8. Am not I better to thee than ten sons? — TEN, a certain for an uncertain number. Is not my especial affection to thee better than all the comfort thou couldst gain, even from a numerous family?


 
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