◄ 1 Samuel 1:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Peninnah, her rival, would torment and humiliate her, because the LORD had kept her childless.

New Revised Standard Version
Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

Contemporary English Version
Peninnah liked to make Hannah feel miserable about not having any children,

New American Bible
Her rival, to upset her, would torment her constantly, since the LORD had closed her womb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:

adversary

Leviticus 18:18 Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

Job 6:14 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

provoked her [heb] angered her

Context
Elkanah and His Wives
…5But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb. 6Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:7And thus she did every year, when the time returned, that they went up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna wept, and did not eat.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:1
And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

1 Samuel 1:7
And thus she did every year, when the time returned, that they went up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna wept, and did not eat.

Job 24:21
For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.

1 Samuel 1:5
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