{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H8050",
  "lemma": "שְׁמוּאֵל",
  "transliteration": "Shᵉmûwʼêl",
  "definition": "Shemuel, the name of three Israelites",
  "kjv": "Samuel, Shemuel.",
  "occurrences": 140,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H8085",
      "lemma": "שָׁמַע",
      "transliteration": "shâmaʻ",
      "meaning": "to hear intelligently",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H8085"
    },
    {
      "id": "H410",
      "lemma": "אֵל",
      "transliteration": "ʼêl",
      "meaning": "strength",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H410"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שְׁמוּאֵל 140 n.pr.m. Samuel (= name of Ēl)",
    "1. great prophet, 11th cent. B.C.",
    "2. in Simeon",
    "3. in Issachar"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 34:20",
      "text": "Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 1:20",
      "text": "When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 2:18",
      "text": "But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 2:21",
      "text": "The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 2:26",
      "text": "The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD and also with men.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 3:1",
      "text": "The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The LORD’s word was rare in those days. There were not many…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 3:3",
      "text": "and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in the LORD’s temple where God’s ark was,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 3:4",
      "text": "The LORD called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 3:6",
      "text": "The LORD called yet again, “Samuel!” Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 3:7",
      "text": "Now Samuel didn’t yet know the LORD, neither was the LORD’s word yet revealed to him.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=7"
    }
  ],
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}