El-kay´nuh; Heb., “God created [the one in the womb]”
The name of five men in the Bible. The best known is Samuel’s father, who favored his infertile wife, Hannah, whom God eventually pitied and allowed to bear a son (
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Powell, Mark Allan, ed. HarperCollins Bible Dictionary. Abridged Edition. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.
