He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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- KJV And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
- BSB He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
- NKJV And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
- NASB And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
- NLT Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not.
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- Gen 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- Luke 1:7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
- Deut 21:15–17If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;
- Judg 13:2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
- Judg 8:30Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
- Gen 4:23Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
- Matt 19:8He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
- Gen 16:1–2Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Gen 25:21Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Gen 29:23–29In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.
- Gen 4:19Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
- Luke 2:36There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
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