What Does 1 Samuel 1:4 Mean in the King James?
And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
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 for “gave” also carries “place,” so provision arrives as something set before each person in a concrete share.
THE MEANING
The verse shows giving taking tangible form: a share reaches a wife and her children. Provision is placed, apportioned, and received within the life of a household.
THE ROOT
וְנָתַן
venatan
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, put, or set in place.
“gave” in this verse is venatan. The root carries the sense of giving and of placing something in position. Here, provision reaches the named recipients as a tangible share.
ALSO GROWS
natan: Give, put, set.
נָתַן
The root form holds giving together with placing something where it can be received.
natun: Given, set in place.
נָתוּן
This form shows what giving leaves behind: something placed and available.
netinah: Giving; an act of giving.
נְתִינָה
The noun keeps the verse’s act of giving connected to the root’s concrete sense of placing.
מָנוֹת
manot
GROWS FROM
מנה
To count, appoint, or assign a share.
The word for portions belongs to a root that also means counting or assigning. The shares are not an indistinct gift; they are apportioned to particular people.
ALSO GROWS
manah: A portion or share; to count or assign.
מָנָה
The singular form names the share that the plural portions distribute.
nimneh: Counted; numbered among.
נִמְנֶה
This form connects a portion to being counted within a group, as the verse names the wife and children receiving shares.
וַיִּזְבַּח
vayyizbach
GROWS FROM
זבח
To sacrifice, slaughter an animal for an offering.
The verb translated “offered” shares its root with the sacrifice itself and the altar. The household portions belong to a giving that is bound to sacrifice.
ALSO GROWS
zevach: A sacrifice or sacrificial offering.
זֶבַח
This noun names the offering from which the verse’s act of giving begins.
mizbeach: Altar.
מִזְבֵּחַ
The altar shares the root consonants and locates the sacrifice within a concrete act of offering.
THE PATTERN
Provision takes communal shape when what is given is apportioned into shares people can receive.
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.THE THREAD
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.The portions here are מָנוֹת (manot), and the next verse gives Hannah a מָנָה (manah), from the same root מנה, “to assign a share.” The repeated root turns a household distribution into Hannah’s particular portion, held alongside the verse’s unsoftened statement that her womb is closed.
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