What Does 1 Samuel 1:7 Mean in the King James?

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

1 Samuel 1:7 · KJV

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THE KEY

The verse places Hannah’s yearly ascent to the LORD’s house beside the yearly return of provocation, letting sacred nearness and visible grief occupy the same scene.

THE MEANING

You can be moving toward the LORD and still meet a wound that has been pressed on you before. When provocation returns, grief reaches the body: tears come, and food is refused. The house of the LORD remains in the scene while the pain remains visible.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that approaching the LORD should make the wound disappear. Hannah’s yearly ascent and yearly grief stand side by side.

THE ROOT

תַּכְעִסֶנָּה

takʿîsennāh

GROWS FROM

כעס

To vex, provoke, or stir anger and distress.

The verb translated “provoked” comes from the same root as the noun for vexation or anger: the word holds both the stirring of distress and the distress it stirs. Its yearly return makes the hurt a repeated pressure, not a single passing sting.

ALSO GROWS

kaʿas: Vexation, anger, or distress.

כַּעַס

The noun names the turmoil carried in the same root as the act of provoking Hannah.

hikʿis: To provoke or vex.

הִכְעִיס

This verb form uses the root causatively, highlighting the act of stirring distress in another.

עֲלֹתָהּ

ʿalotah

GROWS FROM

עלה

To rise, ascend, or go up.

“went up” in this verse is ʿalotah. The Hebrew says “at her going up” to the house; the same root names the ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿolah), the offering that rises. The language holds her ascent toward the house alongside her tears, without suggesting that the ascent has already lifted the pain.

ALSO GROWS

ʿolah: An ascending or burnt offering.

עֹלָה

Its name shares the root for rising, linking Hannah’s “going up” with what ascends.

maʿalah: An ascent or elevation.

מַעֲלָה

This noun preserves the root’s sense of rising and makes the verse’s movement an ascent in the language itself.

THE PATTERN

Taunts can follow a person into sacred life, and their pressure may become visible grief.

And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1:6 · KJVThe same root for “provoked” names the repeated pressure that the next verse shows in Hannah’s tears and refusal to eat.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:3 · KJVHere, too, taunts about God accompany tears and reach into the speaker’s experience of food.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5:11 · KJVThe verse names reviling for the sake of the LORD’s anointed, showing that devotion and the pain of taunts can coexist.

THE THREAD

And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1:6 · KJV

The same Hebrew root for “provoked” appears just before this verse. Verse 7 shows the yearly setting and the embodied result, tears and no food, so the hurt is revealed as a recurring pattern.

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