Luke 2:36

And there was a neviah (prophetess) named Chanah Bat Pnuel, of the shevet (tribe) of Asher. This isha (woman) was advanced in age, having lived with her baal (husband) sheva shanim (seven years) from her betulim (virginity),

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

In Context

35And a cherev (sword) will pierce the neshamah of you yourself also so that the machshavot of many levavot (hearts) will be revealed.

37And then to the age of eighty-four she had lived as an almanah (widow) who was not departing from the Beis HaMikdash, serving yomam valailah (day and night) with tzomot (fastings) and tefillos.

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Cross References

Genesis 30:13And Leah said, B'Ashri (Happy am I), for the banot will call me asher (blessed): so she called shmo Asher.

Judges 4:4And isha Devorah, a neviah, the eshet Lapidot, judged Yisroel at that time.

Job 5:26Thou shalt come to thy kever in a ripe age, 1 like a shock of grain cometh in its season. 1

Acts 2:18And upon My avadim and upon My shfakhot in BAYYAMIM HAHEMMAH ESHPOCH ES RUCHI (in those days I will pour out my Ruach [Hakodesh]) and they will speak devarim hanevu'ah:

1 Corinthians 12:1Now I do not want you to lack da'as concerning the things of the Ruach Hakodesh, Achim b'Moshiach.

Matthew Henry on Luke 2:26-41

Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple. 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his… Read the whole commentary →

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