8Elkanah her husband said to her, |Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?|


In Context

5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

7 as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

8 Elkanah her husband said to her, |Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?|

9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.

10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.

1 Samuel 1:8 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Elkanah her husband would say to her, "Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better to thee than ten sons?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Then Elcana her husband said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? And why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee than ten children?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:8And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:8And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8And Elkanah her husband saith to her, 'Hannah, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why is thy heart afflicted? am I not better to thee than ten sons?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why eat you not? and why is your heart grieved? am not I better to you than ten sons?