STRONGS G4545:
Σαμουήλ (
שֲׁמוּאֵל, for
שְׁמוּעֲאֵל, i. e. 'beard of God', from
שָׁמַע and
אֵל; cf.
1 Samuel 1:20,
27 (see
B. D. under the word )),
ὁ (indeclinable;
Josephus (Antiquities 5, 10, 3)
Σαμουηλος,
Σαμουηλου),
Samuel, the son of Elkanah by his wife Anna (or Hannah), the last of the
שֹׁפְטִים or judges, a distinguished prophet, and the founder of the prophetic order. He gave the Jews their first kings, Saul and David:
Acts 3:24;
Acts 13:20;
Hebrews 11:32. (
1 Samuel 1-25; cf.
1 Samuel 28; Sir. 46:13ff.)
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