King James Version
1 Samuel 1:4 in the King James Version says “And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portion...” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:”
1 Samuel 1:4 · KJV
And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there. yearly: Heb. from year to year
And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. worthy: or, double
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. provoked: Heb. angered
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“And when the time”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and to all her sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and her daughters”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
“portions”
H4490properly, something weighed out, i.e., (generally) a division; specifically (of food) a ration; also a lot
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