שְׁמוּאֵל
Shᵉmûwʼêl · sehm-oo-ale'
Shemuel, the name of three Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: from the passive participle of H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H410 (אֵל); heard of God;
Shemuel, the name of three Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Samuel, Shemuel.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish › strength, the leader › authority, the one who leads
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish of strength, the leader of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שְׁמוּאֵל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
141 occurrences · 141 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and samuel48 · 36%
- samuel28 · 21%
- unto samuel9 · 7%
- then samuel7 · 5%
- to samuel7 · 5%
- of samuel7 · 5%
- so samuel4 · 3%
- that samuel3 · 2%
- and when samuel3 · 2%
- now samuel2 · 1%
- and as samuel2 · 1%
- behold, samuel2 · 1%
- shemuel1 · 1%
- but samuel1 · 1%
- was, and samuel1 · 1%
- himself to samuel1 · 1%
- and it came to pass, when samuel1 · 1%
- us. and samuel1 · 1%
- with samuel1 · 1%
- of them, he and samuel1 · 1%
- from samuel1 · 1%
- me, i pray thee, what samuel1 · 1%
- whereof samuel1 · 1%
- had appointed: but samuel1 · 1%
- to him. and he and samuel1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.