Devine Scripture

1 Samuel 1:5

1 Samuel chapter 1 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.4And when the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

v.5This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 30:2

    And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

  • Genesis 45:22

    To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

  • Genesis 20:18

    For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

  • Genesis 16:1

    Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

  • Genesis 43:34

    And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

  • Genesis 29:30

    And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.