1 Samuel 1:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ but, although he loved Ḥannah, he gave only one portion to Ḥannah, because יהוה had shut up her womb.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ but unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ But to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had given her no children.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.

Common English Bible

⁵ But he would give only one part of it to Hannah, though he loved her, because the LORD had kept her from conceiving.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ But to Hannah he gave one portion with sorrow. For he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.

1 Samuel 1:5 Cross References

Genesis 30:2

And Ya‛aqoḇ’s displeasure burned against Raḥĕl, and he said, “Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Genesis 45:22

He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.

Genesis 20:18

for יהוה had closed up all the wombs of the house of Aḇimeleḵ because of Sarah, Aḇraham’s wife.

Genesis 16:1

And Sarai, Aḇram’s wife, had borne him no child. And she had a Mitsrian female servant whose name was Haḡar.

Genesis 43:34

And he took portions to them from before him, but Binyamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they feasted and they drank with him.

Deuteronomy 21:15

When a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and the first-born son is of her who is unloved,”

Genesis 30:1

And when Raḥĕl saw that she bore Ya‛aqoḇ no children, Raḥĕl envied her sister, and said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Give me children, or else I am going to die!”

Genesis 11:30

And Sarai was barren, she had no child.