Penina

Peninnah was one of the two wives of Elkanah the Ephraimite, and the rival of Hannah, the mother of Samuel. While Hannah was barren, Peninnah had children and used her fertility to provoke Hannah severely, especially at the annual pilgrimage to Shiloh (1 Samuel 1:2, 4–7). Hannah's bitter prayer at Shiloh—out of which the book's narrative of Samuel's birth unfolds—arose directly from the domestic suffering caused by Peninnah's taunting. Peninnah fades from the narrative once Hannah conceives.