Did not know — He was not acquainted with God in that extraordinary or prophetical way. And this ignorance of Samuel's served God's design, that his simplicity might give Eli the better assurance of the truth of God's call, and message to Samuel.
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1 Samuel 3:7
7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.