Word

שְׁמוּאֵל

Shᵉmûwʼêl · H8050 · Hebrew · proper noun · 140 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Meanings

  1. Samuel

    A man, son of Elkanah of the tribe of Levi, who was a judge and prophet

    Examples

    1 Samuel 1:20 It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him of the LORD.”

    1 Samuel 2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD, as a boy wearing a linen ephod.

    1 Samuel 2:21 The LORD indeed visited Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew up before the LORD.

  2. Shemuel or Samuel

    A man, son of Ammihud of the tribe of Simeon and a tribal chief

    Examples

    Numbers 34:20 “Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud.

  3. Shemuel, Samuel

    Man; son of Tola; tribe of Issachar

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 7:2 The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were valiant warriors in their generations. Their number in the days of David was 22,600.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

11 occurrences in 7 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

82 occurrences in 37 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

11 occurrences in 8 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

20 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

14 occurrences in 8 groups

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
Names of People003001007
This proper name identifies Samuel, whom Hannah named and dedicated to the LORD after her prayer for a son was answered, as in 1 Samuel 1:20.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8050. Shemuel שְׁמוּאֵל140 proper name, masculine Samuel (= name of El Thes and others…
H8050. Shemuel
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 רְעוּאֵל מּנוּאֵל,; 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: 1Sa 1:20 (name explained as if from שָׁאַל), 1Sa 1:18, 1Sa 1:21, 1Sa 1:26 125t. 1Samuel; 1Ch 6:13; 1Ch 6:18; 1Ch 9:22; 1Ch 11:3; 1Ch 26:28; 1Ch 29:29; 2Ch 35:18; Jer 15:1; Psa 99:6.
2 in Simeon, Numbers 34:30 (P), σαλαμιηλ.
3 in Issachar 1Ch 7:2, (I) σαμουηλ.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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