Person
Saul
Shaul
שָׁאוּל
Asked for; requested. First king of Israel.
Related
Saul son of Kish, a Benjaminite, is Israel’s first king. This entry is the king, not Saul of Tarsus (see Paul).
Strong’s
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שָׁאוּל H7586
Shâʼûwl · shaw-ool'
Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites
Σαούλ G4549
Saoúl
Saul (i.e. Shaul), the Jewish name of Paul
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.
שָׁאוּל H7586
שָׁאוּל proper name, masculine ( = asked (of ׳י), cf שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל below; Palmyrene proper name שאילא Lzb371 Cooke283); — Σαονλ: 1.397 1st king of Israel, 1Sam 9:2; 1Sam 9:3 (twice in verse); 1Sam 9:5 (son of Kish, a Benjamite) + 359 t. Samuel; 28 t. 1 Chronicles; Ps 18:1; Ps 52:2; Ps 54:2; Ps 57:1; Ps 59:1 (all in titles); ׳גִּבְעַת שׁ Isa 10:29 (and 1Sam 11:4; 1Sam 15:34; 2Sam 21:6 see II . גִּבְעָה).
2. a king of Edom Gen 36:37; Gen 36:38 (P) = 1Chr 1:48; 1Chr 1:49
3. a son of Simeon Gen 46:10; Exod 6:15; Num 26:13 (all P) = 1Chr 4:24.
4. a Levite 1Chr 6:9.
Thayer’s
Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889). Public-domain digital text.
Σαούλ G4549
Saoúl
Σαούλ (שָׁאוּל, 'asked for'), ὁ, indeclinable (in Josephus, Σαουλος), Saul;
1. the name of the first king of Israel: Act 13:21.
2. the Jewish name of the apostle Paul, but occurring only in address (cf. Buttmann, 6): Act 9:4; Act 9:17; Act 22:7; Act 22:13; Act 26:14; in the other passages of the Book of Acts the form Σαῦλος (which see) with the Greek terminology is used.