Anna
Scriptures חַנָּה (Hebrew) Άννα (Greek) Анна (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Church Slavonic) Ἄννα (Ancient Greek)
Anna is a form of Channah or even Hannah meaning “favor, grace” in Hebrew, and used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament. Some translations of the Old Testament prefer the spelling Hannah instead of Anna.
Anna (Hebrew: חַנָּה, Channah, Hannah) is a biblical character, the wife of Elkanah and mother of the Prophet Samuel, and her story is told in the First Book of Samuel.
The name appears briefly in the New Testament (Luke 2, 36-38) belonging to a prophetess who recognized Jesus as the Messiah, but Hannah is also considered by the Christian tradition as the wife of Joachim and the mother of the Virgin Mary, although Mary’s parents are never named in the canonical biblical texts (their story was first told in the apocryphal Protovangel of James and Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, and then enriched with hagiographic details over the centuries).