Word

Σαῦλος

Saûlos · G4569 · Greek · 15 occurrences

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Person

Paulfirst named in Acts 7:58179 verses

Meanings

Saul

An alternative form of Σαούλ, the Hebrew name of the apostle Paul

Examples
Acts 7:58 When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 8:1 Now Saul approved of putting Stephen to death. And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
Acts 8:3 But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house; and he would drag away men and women and put them in prison.

How it’s used In 5 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

διδάσκαλοςteacher, instructor 1
ΠαῦλοςPaul 1
προφήτηςprophet 1

What it doesIt is the subject

7 occurrences in 7 groups

ἐγείρωto raise, to get up 1
εἰμίto be 1
αἰτέωto ask for, to demand, to plead for 1
ἐνδυναμόωto make someone able 1
ἔπωto say 1
λυμαίνομαιto injure severely 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἀναζητέωto seek 1
προσκαλέομαιto call to, to summon 1
ἀφορίζωto separate, to set apart 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γινώσκωto know 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

χείρhand 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Saul93.331: The proper name identifies Paul by his Hebrew name during the earlier part of Luke's narrative. Luke introduces him: “the witnesses laid down their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul” (Acts 7:58).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Σαούλ Saoúl · G4549 · Saul, the Jewish name of Paul · 9×ΣαῦλοςSaûlos · G4569

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Σαύλου, ὁ (see Σαούλ, 2), Saul, the Jewish name of the apostle Paul (cf. Woldemar Schmidt…

Σαύλου, ὁ (see Σαούλ, 2), Saul, the Jewish name of the apostle Paul (cf. Woldemar Schmidt in Herzog edition 2 xi., p. 357f; Conybeare and Howson, St. Paul, i. 150ff (American edition); Farrar, St. Paul, chapter 19:at the end; B. D. American edition under the word ): Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1, Acts 8:3; Acts 9:1, Acts 9:8, Acts 9:11, Acts 9:19 Rec., Acts 9:22, Acts 9:24, Acts 9:26 Rec.; Acts 11:25, Acts 11:30, Acts 12:25, Acts 13:1f, Acts 11:7, Acts 11:9.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Persons15 occurrences

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