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Lexicon :: Strong's H7586 - šā'ûl

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שָׁאוּל
Transliteration
šā'ûl
Pronunciation
shaw-ool'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Pass part of שָׁאַל (H7592)
Strong’s Definitions

שָׁאוּל Shâʼûwl, shaw-ool'; passive participle of H7592; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites:—Saul, Shaul.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 406x

The KJV translates Strong's H7586 in the following manner: Saul (399x), Shaul (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 406x
The KJV translates Strong's H7586 in the following manner: Saul (399x), Shaul (7x).

  1. Saul or Shaul = "desired"

    1. a Benjamite, son of Kish, and the 1st king of Israel

    2. an early king of Edom and a successor of Samlah

    3. a son of Simeon

    4. a Levite, son of Uzziah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁאוּל Shâʼûwl, shaw-ool'; passive participle of H7592; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites:—Saul, Shaul.
STRONGS H7586: Abbreviations
שָׁאוּל proper name, masculine)= asked (of י׳), compare שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל below; Palmyrene proper name שאילא Lzb371 Cooke283); — Σαονλ:
1. 397 1st king of Israel, 1 Samuel 9:2, 3 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 9:5 (son of Kish, a Benjamite) + 359 times Samuel; + 28 times 1 Chronicles; Psalm 18:1; Psalm 52:2; Psalm 54:2; Psalm 57:1; Psalm 59:1 (all in titles); גִּבְעַת שׁ׳ Isaiah 10:29 (and 1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 15:34; 2 Samuel 21:6 see II. גִּבְעָה).
2. a king of Edom Genesis 36:37, 38 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:48, 49.
3. a son of Simeon Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15; Numbers 26:13 (all P) = 1 Chronicles 4:24.
4. a Levite 1 Chronicles 6:9.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

36:37; 36:38; 46:10

Exodus

6:15

Numbers

26:13

1 Samuel

9:2; 9:3; 9:5; 11:4; 15:34

2 Samuel

21:6

1 Chronicles

1:48; 1:49; 4:24; 6:9

Psalms

18:1; 52:2; 54:2; 57:1; 59:1

Isaiah

10:29

H7586

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7586 matches the Hebrew שָׁאוּל (šā'ûl),
which occurs 406 times in 335 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 7 (1Sa 16:22–1Sa 19:7)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:22 - So Saul H7586 sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David now stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:23 - Thus it happened that whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul H7586, David would take the harp and play it with his hand; and Saul H7586 would be refreshed and be well, and the evil spirit would depart from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:2 - But Saul H7586 and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah and arranged themselves for battle to meet the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - And he stood and called out to the [fn]battle lines of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to arrange yourselves for battle? Am I not the Philistine and you slaves of Saul H7586? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:11 - When Saul H7586 and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

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Now David was the son of [fn]the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And [fn]Jesse was old in the days of Saul H7586, advanced in years among men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:13 - And the three older sons of Jesse had gone. They had gone after Saul H7586 to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:14 - But David was the youngest. Now the three oldest had gone after Saul H7586,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:15 - but David went back and forth from Saul H7586 to shepherd his father’s flock at Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:19 - “And Saul H7586 and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

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Then the words which David spoke were heard. And they told them [fn]to Saul H7586, and he sent for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - And David said to Saul H7586, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - Then Saul H7586 said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul H7586, “Your servant was shepherding his father’s sheep. And a lion and a bear would come and take a lamb from the flock,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:37 - And David said, “Yahweh, who delivered me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul H7586 said to David, “Go, and may Yahweh be with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:38 - Then Saul H7586 clothed David with his robes and put a bronze helmet on his head, and he clothed him with armor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - And David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. So David said to Saul H7586, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” And David took them [fn]off.

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Now when Saul H7586 saw David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” And Abner said, “By your life, O king, I do not know.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:57 - So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul H7586 with the Philistine’s head in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:58

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:58 - And Saul H7586 said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

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Now it happened when he had finished speaking to Saul H7586, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:2 - And Saul H7586 took him that day and did not let him return to his father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:5 - So David went out wherever Saul H7586 sent him and [fn]prospered; and Saul H7586 set him over the men of war. And it was pleasing in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of Saul’s H7586 servants.

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And it happened as they were coming, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul H7586, with tambourines, with gladness, and with [fn]musical instruments.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:7 - And the women sang as they [fn]were merry and said,

“Saul H7586 has struck his thousands,

And David his ten thousands.”

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Then Saul H7586 became very angry, for this saying was [fn]displeasing in his eyes; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:9 - So Saul H7586 looked at David with suspicion from that day on.

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Now it happened on the next day that an evil spirit from God [fn]came mightily upon Saul H7586, and he raved in the midst of the house. Now David was playing the harp with his hand, [fn]as usual; and [fn]a spear was in Saul’s H7586 hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:11 - Then Saul H7586 hurled the spear for he thought, “I will [fn]pin David to the wall.” But David [fn]escaped from his presence twice.

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And Saul H7586 was afraid of David, for Yahweh was with him but had turned away from Saul H7586.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:13 - Therefore Saul H7586 turned him away from [fn]his presence and appointed him as his commander of one thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:15 - Then Saul H7586 saw that he was [fn]prospering greatly, so he dreaded him.

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Then Saul H7586 said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife; only be a man of valor for me and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul H7586 thought, “My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:18 - But David said to Saul H7586, “Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:19 - So it happened at the time when Merab, Saul’s H7586 daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

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And Michal, Saul’s H7586 daughter, loved David. So they told Saul H7586, and the thing was right in his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:21 - And Saul H7586 said, “I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul H7586 said to David, “For a second time you may be my son-in-law today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 - Then Saul H7586 commanded his servants, “Speak to David secretly, saying, ‘Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; so now, become the king’s son-in-law.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:23 - So Saul’s H7586 servants spoke these words in [fn]David’s hearing. But David said, “Is it trivial in your eyes to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:24 - And the servants of Saul H7586 told to him [fn]according to these words which David spoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Saul H7586 then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul H7586 planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27 - David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul H7586 gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:28 - Then Saul H7586 saw and knew that Yahweh was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s H7586 daughter, loved him,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:29 - so Saul H7586 was even more afraid of David. So Saul H7586 was David’s enemy continually.

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Then the commanders of the Philistines went out to battle, and it happened as often as they went out, that David behaved himself more insightfully than all the servants of Saul H7586. So his name was highly esteemed.

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Then Saul H7586 spoke with Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death. But Jonathan, Saul’s H7586 son, greatly delighted in David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - So Jonathan told David saying, “Saul H7586 my father is seeking to put you to death. So now, please be careful in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul H7586 his father and said to him, “Do not let the king sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his works have been very good for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:6 - And Saul H7586 listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul H7586 swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:7 - Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul H7586, and he was in his presence as formerly.

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