# H8050 שְׁמוּאֵל

שְׁמוּאֵל (Shᵉmûwʼêl), Strong’s H8050: Shemuel, the name of three Israelites KJV: Samuel, Shemuel.. Occurs 140 times.

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*Shᵉmûwʼêl* — Shemuel, the name of three Israelites

KJV: Samuel, Shemuel.

Built from [שָׁמַע shâmaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H8085) (to hear intelligently) + [אֵל ʼêl](https://besorah.bible/word/H410) (strength) — means “heard of God”

Occurs 140 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שְׁמוּאֵל 140 n.pr.m. Samuel (= name of Ēl)
- 1 great prophet, 11th cent. B.C.
- 2 in Simeon
- 3 in Issachar

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 34:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=20) — Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
- [1 Samuel 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/1?v=20) — When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him…
- [1 Samuel 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=18) — But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
- [1 Samuel 2:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=21) — The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD.
- [1 Samuel 2:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=26) — The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD and also with men.
- [1 Samuel 3:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=1) — The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The LORD’s word was rare in those days. There were not many…
- [1 Samuel 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=3) — and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in the LORD’s temple where God’s ark was,
- [1 Samuel 3:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=4) — The LORD called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”
- [1 Samuel 3:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=6) — The LORD called yet again, “Samuel!” Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He…
- [1 Samuel 3:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=7) — Now Samuel didn’t yet know the LORD, neither was the LORD’s word yet revealed to him.