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1 Samuel 4:21
ESV And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
NIV She named the boy Ichabod, saying, 'The Glory has departed from Israel'--because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
NASB And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, 'The glory has departed from Israel,' because the ark of God had been taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
CSB She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and to the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
NLT She named the child Ichabod (which means 'Where is the glory?'), for she said, 'Israel’s glory is gone.' She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and husband were dead.
KJV And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

What does 1 Samuel 4:21 mean?

Within hours of his death, Eli has a new grandchild. When the wife of his son Phinehas learns the ark of the covenant has been captured, her husband has been killed, and Eli has died suddenly, she goes into sudden labor. She gives birth to a son, but the shock of the birth is too much for her. The fact that her son is apparently healthy gives no comfort to this dying woman (1 Samuel 4:20).

Phinehas's wife names their son Ichabod, which literally means "no glory." While dying, she mourns the death of her husband and father-in-law, but she names her son for the loss of the ark of God. Though she is no priest, she understands along with all in Israel that the Lord is the glory of His people. She believes, wrongly, that the loss of the ark to the Philistines is, in a sense, the loss of God Himself.
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