Person

Samuel

Shemuel

שְׁמוּאֵל

Heard of God; or name of God.

Samuel is the prophet who judged Israel and anointed Saul and David. His mother Hannah asked him of Yahweh.

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שְׁמוּאֵל H8050

Shᵉmûwʼêl · sehm-oo-ale'

Shemuel, the name of three Israelites

from the passive participle of H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H410 (אֵל); heard of God;

KJV glosses: Samuel, Shemuel.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

שְׁמוּאֵל H8050

Biblical Hebrew

שְׁמוּאֵל140 proper name, masculine Samuel (= name of El Thes and others (or, his name is El HomHeb.Trad.98f. WklKAT 3. 225 Now 181, 20), compare פּנוּאֵל, רְעוּאֵל; see Dr181, 20; PrätZMG 1903, 777 ff. caritative from יִשְׁמָעֵאל; Palmyrene שמואל Lzb377; see further GieAT Schätzung d. Gottesn. (1901), 102 ff.); — 1. great prophet, 11th cent. B.C., σαμουηλ: 1Sam 1:20 (name explained as if from שָׁאַל), 1Sam 1:18; 1Sam 1:21; 1Sam 1:26 + 125 t. 1 Samuel; 1Chr 6:13; 1Chr 6:18; 1Chr 9:22; 1Chr 11:3; 1Chr 26:28; 1Chr 29:29; 1Chr 2:18; Ps 99:6.

2. in Simeon, Num 34:30 (P), σαλαμιηλ.

3. in Issachar 1Chr 7:2, (I) σαμουηλ.