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שְׁמוּאֵל

Shemuel

sehm-oo-ale'

Strong's 1890 spelling: Shᵉmûwʼêl

Shemuel, the name of three Israelites

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Shemuel, the name of three Israelites

Rendered in the KJV as

Samuel, Shemuel.

  • 141
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 29
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 141 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 29

  • שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל26
  • שְׁמוּאֵל֙23
  • שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל20
  • שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל10
  • שְׁמוּאֵ֑ל9
  • שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל7
  • שְׁמוּאֵ֜ל7
  • שְׁמוּאֵ֣ל5
  • שְׁמוּאֵ֤ל5
  • שְׁמוּאֵֽל׃5
  • וּשְׁמוּאֵ֕ל3
  • וּשְׁמוּאֵ֖ל3

and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 7

  • Samuel117
  • and Samuel15
  • O Samuel3
  • to Samuel3
  • [are] Samuel1
  • [was] Samuel1
  • Shemuel1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 3

  • proper noun (a name)123
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)15
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNpm · 123
  • HC/Npm · 15
  • HR/Npm · 3

All 141, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Numbers1 occurrence
1 Samuel129 occurrences
1 Chronicles8 occurrences
2 Chronicles1 occurrence
Psalms1 occurrence
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).