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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 .
Peninnah (right) with Elkanah and Hannah as they return to Ramah. Peninnah (Hebrew: פְּנִנָּה Pəninnā; sometimes transliterated Penina) was one of Elkanah's two wives, briefly mentioned in the first Book of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:2). [1] [2] Her name derives from the word פְּנִינָּה (pəninā), meaning "pearl." [3] [4]
Meaning: Yahweh is Salvation Judah, Kingdom of (named after Judah, the son of Jacob and Leah) Nation 930 BC: 586 BC: Judah: Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤃𐤄 Pronunciation: Yuh-how-wuh-duh Judah Maccabee (son of Mattathias ben Johanan) Person 190 BC: 160 BC: Judah: Hebrew: יהודה Pronunciation: Yehudaw Judah Maccabee: Hebrew ...
Elkanah came from a prestigious Levite family in Ramah (verse 1) in the land of Zuph (cf. 1 Samuel 9:5–6). Elkanah's first wife, Hannah, was barren so he had decided to take a second wife, Peninnah (cf. Genesis 16:1–4). When Peninnah had children, tension and rivalry arose between the two women, with Hannah being constantly provoked and ...
Hannah (/ ˈ h æ n ə /; [1] Hebrew: חַנָּה Ḥannā "favor, grace") is one of the wives of Elkanah mentioned in the First Book of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel.
Elkanah/Elkana can also be a surname or a male forename. Some notable people with the first name Elkanah: Elkanah Settle (1648-1724) English poet and playwright; Elkanah Billings (1820-1876) Canada's first paleontologist; Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) American writer, agriculturalist and canal promoter; Elkanah Angwenyi (born 1983) Kenyan 1500m runner
The bank says the increase in the numbers of people identified as being affected by the dam came because the project’s managers used a broader definition of affected households. In other cases, bank officials have attributed shifting numbers for people harmed by projects to later expansions in projects’ size or to population growth during ...
Ramathaim-Zophim (Hebrew: רמתיים־צופים), also called Ramah (רָמָה ) and Ramatha in the Douay–Rheims Bible translation (Ramathaimsophim in the Vulgate), is a city from the Hebrew Bible, the home town and resting place of prophet Samuel. The name of the town means "the heights of the views."