She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He has looked at the humble state (tapeinosin) of his handmaid' quotes Hannah's prayer that God would 'look on the affliction (tapeinosin) of your handmaid' (1 Samuel 1:11 LXX). The shared rare-noun + handmaid combination is high-volume and ties the canticle's singer to Hannah.
High confidenceHannah's vow that no razor and (in the LXX) no wine or strong drink shall touch her son (1 Samuel 1:11) supplies a third Nazirite-from-birth model behind John. Recurrence of the Samuel narrative across the chapter raises an otherwise medium-volume link.
Medium confidenceHannah's plea that God 'look on the affliction of your handmaid' and grant a child (1 Samuel 1:11) stands behind Elizabeth's sense that 'the Lord... looked at me' to remove her shame. The look-upon-the-barren motif coheres with the pervasive Hannah substratum.
Medium confidence'Behold, the handmaid (doule) of the Lord' takes up Hannah's self-designation as 'your handmaid' before the Lord (1 Samuel 1:11). The humble servant-woman posture coheres with the Hannah/Magnificat substratum that crystallizes a few verses later.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Anna's name is the Greek form of Hannah, and her temple devotion of fasting and prayer mirrors Hannah's vow and worship at the sanctuary; Luke's infancy narrative is steeped in the Hannah/Samuel story. The onomastic and devotional link is suggestive though not pressed, so a faint echo.
Low confidence