OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 1:15

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15

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.

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Verse 15. My lord. She gives him this title, though he had called her a drunken woman. Bible.—Unhappy. Hebrew “of a hard (or afflicted) spirit.” See Song of Songs 8:6. Calmet.

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