1st Samuel Footnotes

Footnote 1 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 1:3) "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.

Footnote 2 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 1:17) The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."

Footnote 3 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 1:20) Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for "heard by God."

Footnote 4 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 1:24) 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

Footnote 5 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 2:6) Sheol is the place of the dead.

Footnote 6 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 4:21) "Ichabod" means "no glory."

Footnote 7 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 7:12) "Ebenezer" means "stone of help."

Footnote 8 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 17:17) 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

Footnote 9 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 25:22) or, male.

Footnote 10 -- (1st Samuel Chapter 25:34) or, male.