What Does 1 Samuel 1:28 Mean in the King James?
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew root behind “lent” is also the root of Hannah’s asking: the life she receives as an answer becomes a life entrusted to the LORD.
THE MEANING
What you receive through longing can remain precious without becoming yours to possess completely. The word translated “lent” shares its root with “asked for,” holding the request and the entrusting together. The verse ends with that entrusting expressed in worship.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that receiving what you asked for makes it yours to possess completely.
THE ROOT
הִשְׁאִלְתִּהוּ
hishʾiltihu
GROWS FROM
שאל
shaʾal
To ask or request; in this verb form, to lend.
The Hebrew repeats the root of asking in the words KJV renders “lent” and “be lent.” The request Hannah received and the life she entrusts are held together in one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
shaʾal: To ask or request.
שָׁאַל
This is the root of Hannah’s asking for a child in the surrounding passage.
sheʾelah: A request or petition.
שְׁאֵלָה
The same root names the request that has been answered in this verse.
shaʾul: Asked for; also used with the sense of lent or borrowed.
שָׁאוּל
It shows how the root can hold both a requested life and one entrusted to another.
THE PATTERN
A life received as a gift can be entrusted to the One from whom it comes.
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;THE THREAD
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.Hannah says she “asked” for him from the LORD; here, the same שאל root appears in the words KJV renders “lent.” The request and the entrusting meet in one word-family: the life asked for is also placed in the LORD’s keeping.
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