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Then Eliעֵלִיansweredוַיַּעַןand said,וַיֹּאמֶר“Goלְכִיin peace,לְשָׁלוֹםand may the Elohimוֵאלֹהֵיof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלgrantיִתֵּןyour petitionאֶת שֵׁלָתֵךְthatאֲשֶׁרyou have askedשָׁאַלְתְּof him.”מֵעִמּוֹ
1 Samuel 1:17
Study it in the app“Then Eli answered and said, “Go in peace, and may the Elohim of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.””
Hannah, bitter in soul, prays silently, and Eli thinks she is drunkPrayer
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Samuel 1:17, word by word
- Then Eliעֵלִיeli
Eli
Eli, priest at Shiloh who judged Israel forty years (1 Samuel 4:18); Samuel grew up with him.
Where else “eli” appears- answeredיַּעַןyaan
answer
To reply to what was said.
Where else “yaan” appears- and saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “Goלְכִיlechi
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechi” appears- in peaceשָׁלוֹםshalom
peace
Living without war or quarrels, in harmony.
Where else “shalom” appears- and may the Elohimאלֹהֵיlohe
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “lohe” appears- of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- grantיִתֵּןyiten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “yiten” appears- your petitionשֵׁלָתֵshelate
request
Request: what one asks of another.
Where else “shelate” appears- you have askedשָׁאַלְתְּshaalt
ask for
To ask for something, or borrow.
Where else “shaalt” appears
The context
16Do not regard your servant as a wicked woman, for out of the greatness of my complaint and my grief I have spoken until now.”
17 · This verse (above)
18And she said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” So the woman went on her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.