שָׁאוּלShâʼûwl

proper name, masculine: asked

Pronunciation: shaw-ool' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7586

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 406 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 36:37 When Samlah died, Shaul from the city of Rehoboth-on-the-River became king in his place.
  • Genesis 36:38 When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Acbor became king in his place.
  • Genesis 46:10 The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul. (Shaul’s mother was a Canaanite woman.)
  • Exodus 6:15 The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul. (Shaul’s mother was a Canaanite woman.) Their descendants became the clans of Simeon.
  • Numbers 26:13 The Zoharite clan, named after their ancestor Zohar. The Shaulite clan, named after their ancestor Shaul.
  • 1 Samuel 9:2 His son Saul was the most handsome man in Israel—head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the land.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).