1 Samuel 1:5

New American Bible - revised edition

but he would give a double portion to Hannah because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 16:1

Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children. Now she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

Genesis 20:18

for the Lord had closed every womb in Abimelech’s household on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she had not borne children to Jacob, she became envious of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children or I shall die!”

Genesis 30:2

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Can I take the place of God, who has denied you the fruit of the womb?”

Genesis 43:34

and as portions were brought to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times as large as anyone else’s. So they drank freely and made merry with him.

Genesis 45:22

He also gave to each of them a set of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.

Deuteronomy 21:15

If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and if both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife: