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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 4 / 7 (1Sa 19:9–1Sa 24:4)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:9 - Now there was an evil spirit from Yahweh on Saul H7586 as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - And Saul H7586 tried to [fn]pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s H7586 presence, so that he [fn]stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 -

Then Saul H7586 sent messengers to David’s house to keep watch over him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not make an escape for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:14 - Then Saul H7586 sent messengers to take David, but she said, “He is sick.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:15 - So Saul H7586 sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on [fn]his bed, that I may put him to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:17 - So Saul H7586 said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal said to Saul H7586, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I put you to death?’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:18 -

Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul H7586 had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:19 - And it was told to Saul H7586, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:20 - Then Saul H7586 sent messengers to take David, but they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them. And the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul H7586; and they also prophesied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:21 - This was told to Saul H7586, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. So Saul H7586 sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:24 - He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and [fn]lay down [fn]naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul H7586 also among the prophets?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - And the king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat down by Saul’s H7586 side, but David’s place was missing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - Nevertheless Saul H7586 did not speak anything that day, for he said, “It is an accident; he is not clean; surely he is not clean.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - Now it happened the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place was missing; so Saul H7586 said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:28 - Jonathan then answered Saul H7586, “David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 -

Then Saul’s H7586 anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:32 - But Jonathan answered Saul H7586 his father and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:33 - Then Saul H7586 hurled his spear at him to strike him down; so Jonathan knew that his father had decided to put David to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7 -

Now one of the servants of Saul H7586 was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s H7586 shepherds.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:10 -

Then David arose and fled that day from Saul H7586 and went to Achish king of Gath.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying,

‘Saul H7586 has struck his thousands,

And David his ten thousands’?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:6 -

Then Saul H7586 heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul H7586 was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:7 - And Saul H7586 said to his servants who were standing around him, “Hear now, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:9 - Then Doeg the Edomite, who was [fn]standing by the servants of Saul H7586, said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:12 - And Saul H7586 said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he [fn]answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - Saul H7586 then said to him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have asked of God on his behalf, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:21 - And Abiathar told David that Saul H7586 had killed the priests of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:22 - Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul H7586. It is I who have turned against every person in your father’s household.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:7 - Then it was told to Saul H7586 that David had come to Keilah, so Saul H7586 said, “God has [fn]delivered him into my hand, for he shut himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:8 - Then Saul H7586 summoned all the people for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:9 - But David knew that Saul H7586 was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:10 - Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your slave has heard for certain that Saul H7586 is seeking to come to Keilah to make the city a ruin on my account.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:11 - “Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul H7586 come down just as Your slave has heard? O Yahweh, the God of Israel, I pray, tell Your slave.” And Yahweh said, “He will come down.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:12 - Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul H7586?” And Yahweh said, “They will surrender you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:13 - Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. Now it was told to Saul H7586 that David had escaped from Keilah, so he ceased going out in pursuit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - And David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul H7586 sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:15 -

Then David saw that Saul H7586 had come out to seek his life. Now David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:16 - So Jonathan, Saul’s H7586 son, arose and went to David at Horesh and strengthened his hand in God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:17 - And he said to him, “Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul H7586 my father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you; and Saul H7586 my father knows that also.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:19 -

Then Ziphites came up to Saul H7586 at Gibeah, saying, “Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the [fn]south of [fn]Jeshimon?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:21 - And Saul H7586 said, “May you be blessed of Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24 -

Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul H7586. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the [fn]south of [fn]Jeshimon.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - So Saul H7586 and his men went to seek him, and they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And Saul H7586 heard it and pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:26 - And Saul H7586 went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul H7586, but Saul H7586 and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:27 - But a messenger came to Saul H7586, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:28 - So Saul H7586 returned from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place [fn]the Rock of Escape.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1 -

Now when Saul H7586 returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Saul H7586 took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:3 - And he came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave; and Saul H7586 went in to [fn]relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the inner recesses of the cave.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:4 - Then the men of David said to him, “Behold, this is the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I am about to give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good in your eyes.’” Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul’s H7586 robe secretly.

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