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Lexicon :: Strong's H8050 - šᵊmû'ēl

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שְׁמוּאֵל
Transliteration
šᵊmû'ēl
Pronunciation
sehm-oo-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the pass part of שָׁמַע (H8085) and אֵל (H410)
Strong’s Definitions

שְׁמוּאֵל Shᵉmûwʼêl, sehm-oo-ale'; from the passive participle of H8085 and H410; heard of God; Shemuël, the name of three Israelites:—Samuel, Shemuel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 140x

The KJV translates Strong's H8050 in the following manner: Samuel (137x), Shemuel (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 140x
The KJV translates Strong's H8050 in the following manner: Samuel (137x), Shemuel (3x).

  1. Samuel = "his name is El"

    1. son of Elkanah by his wife Hannah and judge or prophet of Israel during the days of Saul and David

    2. son Ammihud and the prince of the tribe of Simeon who was chosen to divide the land of Canaan between the tribes. Spelled 'Shemuel'

    3. son of Tola and grandson of Issachar. Spelled 'Shemuel'

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שְׁמוּאֵל Shᵉmûwʼêl, sehm-oo-ale'; from the passive participle of H8085 and H410; heard of God; Shemuël, the name of three Israelites:—Samuel, Shemuel.
STRONGS H8050: Abbreviations
שְׁמוּאֵל 140 proper name, masculine Samuel (= name of El Thes and others (or, his name is El HomHeb.Trad.98f. WklKAT 3. 225 Now 181, 20), compare פּנוּאֵל, רְעוּאֵל; see Dr181, 20; PrätZMG 1903, 777 ff. caritative from יִשְׁמָעֵאל; Palmyrene שמואל Lzb377; see further GieAT Schätzung d. Gottesn. (1901), 102 ff.); —
1. great prophet, 11th cent. B.C., σαμουηλ: 1 Samuel 1:20 (name explained as if from שָׁאַל), 1 Samuel 1:18, 21, 26 + 125 times 1 Samuel; 1 Chronicles 6:13; 1 Chronicles 6:18; 1 Chronicles 9:22; 1 Chronicles 11:3; 1 Chronicles 26:28; 1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 35:18; Jeremiah 15:1; Psalm 99:6.
†2. in Simeon, Numbers 34:30 (P), σαλαμιηλ.
†3. in Issachar 1 Chronicles 7:2, (I) σαμουηλ.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

1:18; 1:20; 1:21; 1:26

1 Chronicles

6:13; 6:18; 7:2; 9:22; 11:3; 26:28; 29:29

2 Chronicles

35:18

Psalms

99:6

Jeremiah

15:1

H8050

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Strong's Number H8050 matches the Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šᵊmû'ēl),
which occurs 140 times in 120 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (1Sa 10:14–1Sa 19:20)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14 - Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” And he said, “To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:15 - And Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:16 - And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:17 - Now Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:20 - Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24 - And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:25 - Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:12 - Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:14 - Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:1 - And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:6 - And Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is witness,[fn] who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:11 - And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Barak[fn] and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:18 - So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:19 - And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 - He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:10 - As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15 - And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal[fn] to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - And Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:10 - The word of the LORD came to Samuel:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - “I regret[fn] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:13 - And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said,
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:24 - Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:27 - As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:31 - So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully.[fn] Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:34 - Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35 - And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:4 - Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen these.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest,[fn] but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:13 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:18 - Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:20 - Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

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