Σαμουήλ
Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
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.)
