Atlas Biblica

    person

    Hannah

    חַנָּה

    Hannah, the wife of Elkanah, was the mother of the prophet Samuel, whom she dedicated to the Lord's service at a young age.

    verses
    11
    first named
    1 Samuel 1:2
    last named
    1 Samuel 2:21
    period
    United Monarchy
    role
    Woman

    Description

    Who was Hannah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Hannah was the wife of Elkanah, an Ephraimite, and the mother of the prophet Samuel (1Sa.1.1-2). She was one of Elkanah's two wives, the other being Peninnah. While Peninnah had children, Hannah was barren, which caused her great distress (1Sa.1.2, 6-7). During an annual visit to the tabernacle at Shiloh, Hannah prayed fervently to the Lord, asking for a son and vowing to dedicate him to the Lord's service (1Sa.1.9-11). Eli, the high priest, initially mistook her intense prayer for drunkenness but later blessed her when he understood her situation (1Sa.1.12-18). In due time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son, whom she named Samuel, meaning "heard by God" (1Sa.1.19-20). After weaning him, Hannah fulfilled her vow and brought Samuel to the tabernacle to serve under Eli (1Sa.1.24-28). Hannah's prayer of thanksgiving (1Sa.2.1-10) expresses her joy and gratitude for God's answer to her prayers and her recognition of God's sovereignty. The Bible also records that Hannah had three more sons and two daughters after dedicating Samuel to the Lord (1Sa.2.21). Hannah's story illustrates the power of prayer, faith, and dedication to God.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Hannah 10 of 12 entities the graph connects to Hannah, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.SamuelMother of · 10 events · 121 versesKinshipLORD12 events · 1,004 versesStanding1 event · 228 versesSacrifice2 events · 177 versesSalvation1 event · 88 versesChildren1 event · 81 versesWeeping1 event · 56 versesMizpah2 events · 50 versesShiloh2 events · 36 versesEli4 events · 30 versesEventsHannah

    The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.

    Mother of

    Partner of

    Stands in the same events as

    and 2 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Hannah happens All 2 places the claims about Hannah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Mizpah, Shiloh. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Hannah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.MizpahShiloh
    United MonarchyAll 2 places the claims about Hannah reach

    The pattern

    Where Hannah is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 11 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1 SAMUEL11 VERSES57 books and 922 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 11 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1 SAMUEL11 VERSES57 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Hannah is named in 11 verses, and the name is written 12 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 65 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 1 book. The name is written 12 times in them.

    1. 1 Samuel11 verses

      1:21:51:81:91:131:151:191:201:222:12:21

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via SamuelAbijahSon of Samuel, a corrupt judgevia ElkanahJerohamAn Ephraimite, father of Elkanah and grandfather of Samuel.via SamuelJoelSamuel's firstborn son who judged Israelvia ElkanahPeninnahElkanah's wife, rival of Hannahvia ElkanahZuphLevite ancestor of Samuel the prophet
    ElsewhereGenealogy of HannahEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on