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When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 20. About, at the expiration of the year, which term the ancients frequently allowed between the conception and the nativity. Genesis 18:10.—Samuel. This name imports, asked of God. Challoner.—Some letters are omitted for the easier pronunciation, as the Hebrews would now write it, Saul-meel; ( Calmet.) or it may signigy, “God placed him,” sum-hal. Tirinus.—Shaal means, “to ask.” But Vatable thinks that Anna retained only the first letter. Menochius.
Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for “heard by God.”
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