Luke 2:37

And 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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

In Context

36And 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),

38And at that very moment she came and stood nearby, exclaiming, Baruch Hashem. And she continued speaking about him to all the ones anticipating the Geulah (Redemption) of Yerushalayim. + 2:38 Isa 40:2; 52:9

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Cross References

Exodus 38:8And he made the Kiyor of nechoshet, and the stand of it of nechoshet, of the mirrors of the tzve'ot, who assembled at the petach Ohel Mo'ed.

Psalms 22:2Eli, Eli, lamah azavtani? + 22:2 See Mt 27:46 1 Why art Thou so far from my yeshu'ah, and from the words of my groaning? 1

Psalms 27:4One thing have I asked of Hashem, 1 that will I seek after: 1 that I may dwell in the Bais Hashem 1 all the days of my life, 1 to behold the gracefulness of Hashem, 1 and to inquire in His Heikhal. 1

Psalms 84:10Behold mogineinu (our shield), O Elohim, 1 and look upon the face of Thine Moshiach. 1

Psalms 135:1Praise Hashem. 1 Halelu, O ye avadim of Hashem. 1

Acts 13:3Then, having continued the tzom and having davened and having laid their hands upon them, they sent them off.

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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