1 Samuel 1:20

²⁰ And it was, in the circling of the days, that Hannah conceived and gave··birth to a son, and called his name Samuel^*, Because^◦ I have asked him of Jehovah.

Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

Matter

In Genesis 24:9, this signifies a sacred obligation or binding pledge. (Arcana Coelestia 3046)

In Genesis 30:15, this signifies resentment because the marriage of external truth with natural good here had ceased. (Arcana Coelestia 3946-3947)