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# שְׁמוּאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8050

**Samuel** — used 140 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

Samuel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8050/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁמוּאֵל: n.pr.m. Samuel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8050/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Samuel (= name of Ēl Thes al. (or, his name is Ēl HomHeb. Trad. 98 f. WklKAT3 225 Now 1 S 1:20), cf. פְּנוּאֵל, רְעוּאֵל; v. Dr 1 S 1:20; PrätZMG 1903, 777 ff. caritative from יִשְׁמָעֵאל; Palm. שמואל Lzb 377; v. further GieAT1 Schätzung d. Gottesn. (1901), 102 ff.);— great prophet, 11th cent. b.c., Σαμουηλ: 1 S 1:20 (name expl. as if from שָׁאַל), 1:18, 21, 26 + 125 times 1 S, 1 Ch 6:13, 18; 9:22; 11:3; 26:28; 29:29; 2 Ch 35:18; Je 15:1 ψ 99:6. in Simeon, Nu 34:20 (P), Σαλαμιηλ. in Issachar 1 Ch 7:2, (Ι)σαμουηλ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Samuel (123); of Samuel (11); O Samuel (3).

## In the verses

[Numbers 34:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.20/#tree)

וּלְמַטֵּה֙ בְּנֵ֣י שִׁמְע֔וֹן שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל בֶּן־עַמִּיהֽוּד׃

*Word for word:* and of the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Simeon Shemuel the.son of.Ammihud

*JPS 1917:* And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

[1 Samuel 15:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.10/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Samuel (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8050.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8050/): 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).