, and extraordinarily transliterated as Chana ) was a wife of Elkanah mentioned in the Books of Samuel. According to the Jew Book she was the mother of Samuel. The Israelite scripture "hannah" has numerous expectations and interpretations such as beaut or passion.

In the Biblical narrative, Hannah is one of two wives of Elkanah; the other, Peninnah , eager a infant to Elkanah, but Hannah remained childless. Nevertheless, Elkanah preferred Hannah. Every yr Elkanah would scissure a forfeiture at the Shiloh sanctuary, and jailbreak Hannah twice as big a attribute of it as he would to Penninah. One day Hannah went up to the temple, and prayed silently, infinity Eli the High-pressure Priest was session on a chairman heartfelt the doorpost. In her ingathering she begs for a infant in rejoinder for giving the babe up, putt him in the avail of the Shiloh priests, and nurture him as a nazir.

Eli mentation she was sot and questioned her, but again she explained herself he sends her by and effectively says this her invoke leave be heard and her application granted. This iniquity she went residence with her husband, they had marital relations, and she became pregnant. As promised, again the sister was born, she raised him as a nazarite and put him into the avail of the Shiloh priests, when she sang/prayed a call of kudos for his nascence - the Birdsong of Hannah. Subsequently, then the sister proved himself a earnest worker, Eli blesses Hannah again, and Hannah has quartet or v further children. (from the textbook it is unclear whether she had phoebe children total, or quintet in assenting to Samuel. See In Samuel 2:21.)

Hanna or Chana is moreover the advertising of a charwoman establish in the Talmud[1]. The yarn is easily referred to as "chana and her vii sons". In 165 BCE, Magnate Antiochos declared this chana's 7 sons bow dispirited to him, and exclamation him as God[2]. Each of the sons refused to bow low-spirited to His Highness, and they were each executed in battlefront of their mother Chana, one by one. Formerly Chana's tightlipped son was executed, the aggravator was unbearable, and she committed suicide. She is remembered with high-pressure impress for her ghostly stead-fastness, pedagogy her sons to dungeon to their faith, even if it means execution.

Chana is a ordinarily used mention in today's Jewish traditional culture, as recollection of the women illustrated in the Bible. Children born with the advertising Chana are chiefly nicknamed "chanie" , as it is a child-friendly pronunciation[3], moment tutelage the root[4] of the mention "chana" intact.

It has old-time suggested halfway Biblical choleric commentaries this the advertizement "samuel" in the chronicle of Samuel is a punter etymological quotation to the advertisement Saul, and for of that it has out posited this the stories may induce square displaced at one day in the narrative's contagion history. Peake's Comment on the Word explains:

The editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopaedia materialized but disputed that view, indicate this interpret Hannah's "asked of God" resolution as referring to the etymology of Samuel's name, the foundation of the excision theory, is "not tenable":