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# חַנָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2584

**Hannah** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hannah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2584/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַנָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2584/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. 𝔊 Ἄννα (cf. Nab. חנה EutNo. 20), mother of Samuel 1 S 1:2(×2), 5(×2), 8, 9, 13, 15, 19, 20, 22; 2:1, 21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hannah (11); O Hannah (1); \[was\] Hannah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.5/#tree)

וּלְחַנָּ֕ה יִתֵּ֛ן מָנָ֥ה אַחַ֖ת אַפָּ֑יִם כִּ֤י אֶת־חַנָּה֙ אָהֵ֔ב וַֽיהוָ֖ה סָגַ֥ר רַחְמָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to Hannah he.gave a.portion one double (dm) (et) Hannah he.loved and Yahweh he.had.closed womb her

*JPS 1917:* but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.

[1 Samuel 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.21/#tree)

כִּֽי־פָקַ֤ד יְהוָה֙ אֶת־חַנָּ֔ה וַתַּ֛הַר וַתֵּ֥לֶד שְׁלֹשָֽׁה־בָנִ֖ים וּשְׁתֵּ֣י בָנ֑וֹת וַיִּגְדַּ֛ל הַנַּ֥עַר שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל עִם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) he.visited Yahweh (et) Hannah and she.conceived and she.bore three sons and two daughters and he.grew.up the lad Samuel with Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* So the LORD remembered Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2584.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2584/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).