Strong's Hebrew: 7586. שָׁאוּל (Shaul) -- "asked (of Yah)," first king of Isr., also an Edomite and two Israelites

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Shaul: "asked (of Yah)," first king of Isr., also an Edomite and two Israelites

Original Word: שָׁאוּל
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Shaul
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-ool')
Short Definition: Saul

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from shaal
Definition
"asked (of Yah)," first king of Isr., also an Edomite and two Isr.
NASB Translation
Saul (357), Saul's (34), Shaul (9).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שָׁאוּל proper name, masculine ( = asked (of ׳י), cf שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל below; Palmyrene proper name שאילא Lzb³⁷¹ Cooke²⁸³); — Σαονλ:

1₃₉₇ 1st king of Israel, 1 Samuel 9:2,3(twice in verse); 1 Samuel 9:5 (son of Kish, a Benjamite) + 359 t. Samuel; 28 t. 1Chronicles; Psalm 18:1; Psalm 52:2; Psalm 54:2; Psalm 57:1; Psalm 59:1 (all in titles); ׳גִּבְעַת שׁ Isaiah 10:29 (and 1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 15:34; 2 Samuel 21:6 see II . גִּבְעָה).

2 a king of Edom Genesis 36:37,38 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:48,49

3 a son of Simeon Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15; Numbers 26:13 (all P) = 1 Chronicles 4:24.

4 a Levite 1 Chronicles 6:9.

Strong's

Saul, Shaul

Passive participle of sha'al; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites -- Saul, Shaul.

see HEBREW sha'al