Han'nah. (grace). One of the wives of Elkanah, and mother of Samuel. 1 Samuel 1-2. (B.C. 1141). A hymn of thanksgiving for the birth of her son is in the highest order of prophetic poetry, its resemblance to that of the Virgin Mary, compare 1 Samuel 2:1-10 with Luke 1:46-55; see also Psalms 113:1, has been noticed.