Lukas 1:44

44 For hinei! When the sound of your Birkat Shalom came into my ears, the yeled leaped with simcha in my womb.

Lukas 1:44 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 1:44

For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in
mine ears
This she mentions, as the signal by which she knew that she was the mother of her Lord; namely, from that unusual and extraordinary motion of the child, she felt within her:

the babe leaped in my womb for joy;
that the mother of her Lord, and his, was come thither: the Jews ought not to object to this, who affirm, that the embryos, or infants in their mother's womb, sung the song at the Red Sea, and praised God. ^F9

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Targum in Ps lxviii. 27. Zohar in Exod. fol. 23. 3. T. Hieros, Sota, fol. 20. 3. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 75. 3.

Lukas 1:44 In-Context

42 And Elisheva cried out with a kol gadol (loud voice) and said, Brucha at miNashim (Blessed art thou among women), and baruch (blessed is) the pri (fruit) of your womb! [SHOFETIM 5:24]

43 And why has this happened to me that the Em Adoni should come to me?

44 For hinei! When the sound of your Birkat Shalom came into my ears, the yeled leaped with simcha in my womb.

45 And ashrey is the one having had emunah that there will be a fulfillment to the things having been spoken to Miryam by Hashem.

46 And Miryam said, My soul doth magnify Hashem [TEHILLIM 34:2,3]