What Does 1 Samuel 1:15 Mean?

“answered”

properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,

“And Hannah”

channah, an israelitess

“and said”

to say (used with great latitude)

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“No my lord”

sovereign, i.e., controller (human or divine)

“I am a woman”

a woman

“of a sorrowful”

severe (in various applications)

“spirit”

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the

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“neither wine”

wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication

“nor strong drink”

an intoxicant, i.e., intensely alcoholic liquor

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“I have drunk”

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

“but have poured out”

to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“my soul”

properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment

“before”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god