1 SAMUEL 1:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.”
Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard—*dibberah al-libah* (spoke upon her heart) suggests interiority, the interior colloquy of the soul with God. This posture—lips moving, voice unheard—becomes in rabbinic tradition (*Mishnah Berachot*) the defining characteristic of proper prayer, distinguishing it from vain utterance.
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