1 Samuel 1:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [This embarrassed and grieved Hannah] and her rival provoked her greatly to vex her, because the Lord had left her childless.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

Common English Bible

⁶ And because the LORD had kept Hannah from conceiving, her rival would make fun of her mercilessly, just to bother her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And her rival afflicted her and vehemently distressed her, to a great extent, for she rebuked her that the Lord had closed her womb.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1:6 Cross References

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

2 Samuel 6:23

And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

Job 24:21

“They harm the childless woman and do no good to the widow.

Job 6:14

“Those who withhold kindness from a friend forsake the fear of the Almighty.

Leviticus 18:18

And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

Judges 11:37

And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: grant me two months, so that I may go and wander on the mountains and bewail my virginity, my companions and I.”

1 Samuel 1:7

So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God. My mouth derides my enemies because I rejoice in your victory.