Wherefore Simply And.

to Ramah See note on Ramathaim-Zophim in 1 Samuel 1:1.

Samuel This name, in Hebrew Shemuel, is familiar to us only in its Latin dress. It was borne by two other persons in the O. T. (Numbers 34:20; 1 Chronicles 7:2). Three explanations of it are proposed: (a) "Name of God": (b) "Asked of God": (c) "Heard of God": of which the last is the most probable; compare Ishmael= "God heareth." Hannah gives the child a name which will be a continual memorial of God's answer to her prayer. It found a subsequent appropriateness in the fervency and efficacy of his own prayers.

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