Strong's Hebrew · H8050

שְׁמוּאֵל

Shᵉmûwʼêl · sehm-oo-ale'

Samuel, Shemuel.

Definition

Shemuel, the name of three Israelites

Derivation

from the passive participle of H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H410 (אֵל); heard of God;

Appears 140 times in Scripture

1 Samuel 15:26

“I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”

1 Samuel 8:4

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

1 Samuel 15:28

So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.

1 Samuel 7:15

So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

1 Samuel 10:14

Now Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” “To look for the donkeys,” Saul replied. “When we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”

1 Samuel 9:15

Now on the day before Saul’s arrival, the LORD had revealed to Samuel,

1 Samuel 12:6

Then Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is the One who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

Numbers 34:20

Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;

1 Samuel 9:14

So Saul and his servant went up toward the city, and as they were entering it, there was Samuel coming toward them on his way up to the high place.

1 Samuel 3:8

Once again, for the third time, the LORD called to Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” Then Eli realized that it was the LORD who was calling the boy.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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