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1 Samuel 28:3
“Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- שְׁמוּאֵ֣ל — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 140 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 34:201 Samuel 1:201 Samuel 2:181 Samuel 2:211 Samuel 2:26
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.