Σαμουήλ

English (Strong)

of Hebrew origin (שְׁמוּאֵל); Samuel (i.e. Shemuel), an Israelite: Samuel.

English (Thayer)

(שֲׁמוּאֵל, for שְׁמוּעֲאֵל, i. e. 'beard of God', from שָׁמַע and אֵל; cf. B. D. under the word Smith's Bible Dictionary, Samuel)), 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: 1 Samuel 1-25; cf. 1 Samuel 28; Sirach 46:13 ff.)