1 Samuel 1:14

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Eli	עֵלִ֔י 'e.Li	H5941	Eli · proper noun, a man's name
said	וַיֹּ֤אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
drunken	תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִ֑ין tish.ta.ka.Rin	H7937	to become tipsy · verb, hithpael imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular + paragogic nun
away	הָסִ֥ירִי ha.Si.ri	H5493	to turn off (literal or figurative) · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person feminine singular
wine	יֵינֵ֖ךְ yei.Nekh	H3196	wine (as fermented) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Joshua 22:12-20 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go…
Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Psalms 62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Proverbs 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Matthew 7:1-3 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 1:9-18

Elkanah had gently reproved Hannah for her inordinate grief, and here we find the good effect of the reproof. I. It brought her to her meat. She ate and drank, Sa1 1:9. She did not harden herself in sorrow, nor grow sullen when she was reproved for it; but, when she perceived her husband uneasy that she did not come and eat with them, she cheered up her own spirits as well as she could, and came to table. it is as great a piece of self-denial to control our passions as it is to control our appetites. II. It brought her to her prayers. It put her upon considering, "Do I well to be angry? Do I well to fret? What good does it do me? Instead of binding the burden thus upon my shoulders, had I no…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 1:12

Eli marked her mouth--The suspicion of the aged priest seems to indicate that the vice of intemperance was neither uncommon nor confined to one sex in those times of disorder. This mistaken impression was immediately removed, and, in the words, "God grant," or rather, "will grant," was followed by an invocation which, as Hannah regarded it in the light of a prophecy pointing to the accomplishment of her earnest desire, dispelled her sadness, and filled her with confident hope [Sa1 1:18]. The character and services of the expected child were sufficiently important to make his birth a fit subject for prophecy.

Adam Clarke on 1 Samuel 1:13

Spake in her heart; only her lips moved - She prayed; her whole heart was engaged: and though she spake not with an audible voice, yet her lips formed themselves according to the pronunciation of the words which her heart uttered.

John Gill on 1 Samuel 1:14

And Eli said unto her, how long wilt thou be drunken?.... What, every day drunk? what, continually in this wicked practice? when will it be stopped? for Eli might have observed on other days, and at other times, odd looks, and a strange behaviour in her, which he took for the effects of drinking too much wine: or how long will this drunken fit last? she had been a considerable time as he thought in it, and it was not gone off yet: the Targum is,"how long wilt thou behave like a fool, or a mad woman?''as drunken people generally do act, as if they were fools, or mad: put away thy wine from thee; not as if she had any with her there to drink of, but he advises her, since it had such an effect…

The Church Fathers

29. The wine with which Anna was drunk would have been digested, if the holy Church, overcome by the threats of the Jews, had grown lukewarm from the fervor of preaching. And because they were striving to withdraw from her the understanding of preaching, Anna is commanded to digest the wine for a little while. Did not Eli then command Anna to digest, when the princes of the Jews, having beaten the apostles, ordered them, saying that they should no longer speak in the name of Jesus? But because they refused to digest the wine with which they were drunk, they answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). And again: "We cannot but speak what we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20).
— Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 1, Chapter 1

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Dictionary and topics

Hannah — Favour, grace, one of the wives of Elkanah the Levite, and the mother of Samuel (1 Sam. 1; 2). Her home was at Ramathaim-zophim, whence she was wont every year to go to Shiloh, where the tabernacle…
Barrenness · .Hannah — .Hannah
Children · .Hannah — .Hannah
Drunkenness · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Eli · Mis — Mis
Hannah · Her trials and prayer, and promise — Her trials and prayer, and promise
Meekness · .Hannah — .Hannah
Misjudgment · .Of Hannah — .Of Hannah
Samuel · Miraculous birth of — Miraculous birth of
Uncharitableness · .Of Eli toward Hannah — .Of Eli toward Hannah

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Samuel 1:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 1:9-18

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 1:12

Adam Clarke on 1 Samuel 1:13

John Gill on 1 Samuel 1:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

1 Samuel 1:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 1:9-18

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 1:12

Adam Clarke on 1 Samuel 1:13

John Gill on 1 Samuel 1:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Samuel 1:12-14

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Samuel 1:13-14

Rashi on 1 Samuel 1:13