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# שָׁאוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7586

**Saul** — used 406 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Saul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7586/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁאוּל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7586/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (= asked (of י׳), cf. שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל infr.; Palm. n.pr. שאילא Lzb371 Cooke283);—Σαουλ: 397 1st king of Isr., 1 S 9:2, 3(×2), 5 (son of Kish, a Benjamite) + 359 times Sm, 28 times 1 Chr, ψ 18:1; 52:2; 54:2; 57:1; 59:1 (all in titles); גִּבְעַת שׁ׳ Is 10:29 (and 1 S 11:4; 15:34; 2 S 21:6 v. II. גִּבְעָה). a king of Edom Gn 36:37, 38 (P) = 1 Ch 1:48, 49. a son of Simeon Gn 46:10; Ex 6:15; Nu 26:13 (all P) = 1 Ch 4:24. a Levite 1 Ch 6:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Saul (302); of Saul (89); Shaul (9).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.24/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י שִׁמְע֑וֹן נְמוּאֵ֣ל וְיָמִ֔ין יָרִ֖יב זֶ֥רַח שָׁאֽוּל׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Simeon \[were\].Nemuel and Jamin Jarib Zerah Shaul

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamim, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

[Numbers 26:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.13/#tree)

לְזֶ֕רַח מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַזַּרְחִ֑י לְשָׁא֕וּל מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁאוּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Zerah the.clan of the.Zerahite\[s\] of Shaul the.clan of the.Shaulite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7586.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7586/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).