1 Samuel 1:16

1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, ¹  for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

1 Samuel 1:18

1:18 She said, “May I, your servant, find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and got something to eat. ²  Her face no longer looked sad.

1 Samuel 1:26

1:26 She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

1 Samuel 28:24

28:24 Now the woman ³  had a well-fed calf ⁴  at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

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¹ tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”

² tc Several medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack the words “and got something to eat.”

³ sn Masoretic mss of the Hebrew Bible mark this word as the half-way point in the book of Samuel, treating 1 and 2 Samuel as a single book. Similar notations are found at the midway point for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

⁴ tn Heb “a calf of the stall.”