They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
"For she said, "I have asked him of the Lord."  A number of excellent scholars tell us that the name Samuel does not mean, "asked of the Lord." Still, the Douay Version declares flatly in a footnote on that verse that, "This name means `asked of God.'"[14]  Whatever the truth may be, it is evident enough from the Sacred Text that there must be some connection between the name Samuel and Hannah's declared reason for giving it.