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Strong's #8050 - שְׁמוּאֵל
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- Samuel = "his name is El"
- son of Elkanah by his wife Hannah and judge or prophet of Israel during the days of Saul and David
- son Ammihud and the prince of the tribe of Simeon who was chosen to divide the land of Canaan between the tribes. Spelled ´Shemuel´
- son of Tola and grandson of Issachar. Spelled ´Shemuel´
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1 great prophet, 11th cent. B.C., σαμουηλ: 1 Samuel 1:20 (name explained as if from שָׁאַל), 1 Samuel 1:18,21,26 125t. 1Samuel; 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.
שְׁמוּאֵל pr.n. Samuel, [Shemuel] (according to 1 Samuel 1:20, i.q. שְׁמוּעֲאֵל “heard of God,” unless it be preferred “name of God,” taking שְׁמוּ as a sing. const. i.q. שֵׁם, compare רֵעַ and רְעוּ, מֵת and מְתוּ, פְּנוּ, פְּנִי i.q. פָּנֶה face [the Scripture derivation of a name must always be the true one]).
(1) the name of a very celebrated judge and prophet of the Hebrews, the son of Elkanah, of the tribe of Ephraim (1 Samuel 1:1) [this is wholly incorrect; he was a Levite].
(2) Another of the same name, also the son of Elkanah, grandfather of Heman, 1 Chronicles 6:13, 18 1 Chronicles 6:18, who is mentioned among the Levites and singers. [But this is the same person as No. 1.]
(3) Numbers 34:24.
(4) 1 Chronicles 7:2.