Σαούλ
Saoúl · G4549 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Person
- Paulfirst named in Acts 7:58179 verses
Meanings
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Saul
The Hebrew name of the apostle Paul
ExamplesActs 9:4 and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
Acts 9:17 So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 22:7 and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’
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Saul
The first king of Israel
ExamplesActs 13:21 “Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἀνήρman, husband 1
- υἱόςson 1
- ἀδελφόςbrother 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- λέγωto say 3
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- שָׁאוּל Shâʼûwl · H7586 · Saul, Shaul
- The Hebrew name of Saul, both the first king of Israel and the Hebrew name of the apostle Paul, behind the Greek form of the name.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Saul93.327a
- The proper name identifies Israel's first king. Paul recounts Israel's history before the Antioch synagogue: “God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin” (Acts 13:21).
- Saul93.327b
- The same proper name also identifies a distinct man, Paul's own Hebrew name before his conversion. Luke records the voice from heaven that confronted him: “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” (Acts 9:4).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (שָׁאוּל, 'asked for'), ὁ, indeclinable (in Josephus, Σαουλος), Saul; 1. the name of the…
1. the name of the first king of Israel: Acts 13:21.
2. the Jewish name of the apostle Paul, but occurring only in address (cf. Buttmann, 6): Acts 9:4, Acts 9:17; Acts 22:7, Acts 22:13; Acts 26:14; in the other passages of the Book of Acts the form Σαῦλος (which see) with the Greek terminology is used.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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