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Elkanah ( Hebrew: אֱלְקָנָה ’Ĕlqānā " El has purchased") was, according to the First Book of Samuel, the husband of Hannah, and the father of her children including her first, Samuel. Elkanah practiced polygamy; his other wife, less favoured but bearing more children, was named Peninnah.
Mar 8, 2024 · Elkanah is the name of a couple of men in the Bible (Exodus 6:24; 1 Chronicles 6:23). The better-known Elkanah was the father of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1–8; 1 Chronicles 6:25–26). The name Elkanah means “God has created” or “God has taken possession.”
ELKANAH ĕl kā’ nə ( אֶלְקָנָ֖ה, God has taken possession, or God has created ). The name of eight men in the OT. 1. One of the descendants of Korah of the family of Levi ( Exod 6:24 ). He was the head of his father’s house ( 6:25 ). He is more exactly described as the son of Assir, Korah’s son.
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1 There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the region of Zuph[a] in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, of Ephraim. 2 Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not. 3 Each year Elkanah would travel to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the...
9 Once after a sacrificial meal at Shiloh, Hannah got up and went to pray. Eli the priest was sitting at his customary place beside the entrance of the Tabernacle.[d] 10 Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she prayed to the Lord. 11 And she made this vow: “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer an...
19 The entire family got up early the next morning and went to worship the Lord once more. Then they returned home to Ramah. When Elkanah slept with Hannah, the Lord remembered her plea, 20 and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[f] for she said, “I asked the Lordfor him.” 21 The next year Elkanah and his family went on their...
An Elkanah is listed as an ancestor of the Levites who were taken into captivity in Babylon (1 Chronicles 9:16). And an Elkanah is recorded to have been second to King Ahaz in 2 Chronicles 28:7. The most well-known Elkanah is the father of Samuel.
Oct 18, 2023 · Elkanah is an important historical figure in the Bible, making the transition from polytheistic worship to the emergence of monotheism. He started out a polytheist, with his two wives, and worshiping at the trees of different gods, but it was in the temple at Shiloh that he first encountered the idea of a single, all-powerful and all-knowing God.
1 This is the story of Elkanah, a man of the tribe of Ephraim who lived in Ramathaim-zophim, in the hills of Ephraim. His great-great-grandfather was Zuph. 2 He had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had some children, but Hannah didn’t.
