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Hannah

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Hannah, in the Bible, Samuel's mother. Her song is recalled in the Magnificat Magnificat [Lat.,=magnifies], song of the Virgin Mary, beginning "Magnificat anima mea Dominum" [my soul doth magnify the Lord], from Luke 1.46–55. It is the daily vesper hymn of the Roman Catholic Church and is usually sung at evening prayer in the Church of England.
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. The names Anna and Ann are variants of Hannah.
Hannah
Old Testament the woman who gave birth to Samuel (I Samuel 1--2)

Hannah
jubilantly thankful to God for giving son.
See : Gratitude


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"Only two hours," she sighed "That will be half past one; mother will be at cousin Ann's, the children at home will have had their dinner, and Hannah cleared all away.
Her name was Hannah and her husband's Matthew; two homely names, yet well enough adapted to the simple pair, who seemed strangely out of place among the whimsical fraternity whose wits had been set agog by the Great Carbuncle.
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