“but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.”
1 Samuel 1:5 (WEB)
Context Reading
3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahwehof Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there. 4When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters; 5but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb. 6Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. 7So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.