{One Anna a prophetess} (Hanna proph(8874)is). The word
proph(8874)is occurs in the N.T. only here and  Re 2:20 . In old
Greek writers it means a woman who interprets oracles. The long
parenthesis into verse  37  tells of her great age. Montefiore
makes it 106 as she was 15 when married, married 7 years, a widow
84.