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1 Samuel 2:18
“But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שְׁמוּאֵלShᵉmûwʼêl · sehm-oo-ale'
H8050 · Hebrew
H8050 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Shemuel, the name of three Israelites
- Derivation
- from the passive participle of H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H410 (אֵל); heard of God;
- KJV renderings
- Samuel, Shemuel.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- שְׁמוּאֵ֕ל — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 140 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 34:201 Samuel 1:201 Samuel 2:211 Samuel 2:261 Samuel 3:1
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שְׁמוּאֵל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.