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Lexicon :: Strong's H7586 - šā'ûl

Aa
שָׁאוּל
Transliteration
šā'ûl
Pronunciation
shaw-ool'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Pass part of שָׁאַל (H7592)
Strong’s Definitions

שָׁאוּל Shâʼûwl, shaw-ool'; passive participle of H7592; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites:—Saul, Shaul.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 406x

The KJV translates Strong's H7586 in the following manner: Saul (399x), Shaul (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 406x
The KJV translates Strong's H7586 in the following manner: Saul (399x), Shaul (7x).

  1. Saul or Shaul = "desired"

    1. a Benjamite, son of Kish, and the 1st king of Israel

    2. an early king of Edom and a successor of Samlah

    3. a son of Simeon

    4. a Levite, son of Uzziah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁאוּל Shâʼûwl, shaw-ool'; passive participle of H7592; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites:—Saul, Shaul.
STRONGS H7586: Abbreviations
שָׁאוּל proper name, masculine)= asked (of י׳), compare שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל below; Palmyrene proper name שאילא Lzb371 Cooke283); — Σαονλ:
1. 397 1st king of Israel, 1 Samuel 9:2, 3 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 9:5 (son of Kish, a Benjamite) + 359 times Samuel; + 28 times 1 Chronicles; 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

36:37; 36:38; 46:10

Exodus

6:15

Numbers

26:13

1 Samuel

9:2; 9:3; 9:5; 11:4; 15:34

2 Samuel

21:6

1 Chronicles

1:48; 1:49; 4:24; 6:9

Psalms

18:1; 52:2; 54:2; 57:1; 59:1

Isaiah

10:29

H7586

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7586 matches the Hebrew שָׁאוּל (šā'ûl),
which occurs 406 times in 335 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 7 (1Sa 24:5–2Sa 1:5)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:5 - Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:7 - With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:8 - Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:9 - He said to Saul, “Why do you listen when men say, ‘David is bent on harming you’?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16 - When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:22 - So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:44 - But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel[fn] son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:1 - The Ziphites went to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which faces Jeshimon?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand select Israelite troops, to search there for David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:3 - Saul made his camp beside the road on the hill of Hakilah facing Jeshimon, but David stayed in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul had followed him there,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:4 - he sent out scouts and learned that Saul had definitely arrived.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:5 - Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of the army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the camp, with the army encamped around him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 - David then asked Ahimelek the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down into the camp with me to Saul?” “I’ll go with you,” said Abishai.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:7 - So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there was Saul, lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:12 - So David took the spear and water jug near Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the LORD had put them into a deep sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:17 - Saul recognized David’s voice and said, “Is that your voice, David my son?” David replied, “Yes it is, my lord the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:21 - Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. Because you considered my life precious today, I will not try to harm you again. Surely I have acted like a fool and have been terribly wrong.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:25 - Then Saul said to David, “May you be blessed, David my son; you will do great things and surely triumph.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:4 - When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 - Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:4 - The Philistines assembled and came and set up camp at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and set up camp at Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:5 - When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid; terror filled his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:6 - He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:7 - Saul then said to his attendants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her.” “There is one in Endor,” they said.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:8 - So Saul disguised himself, putting on other clothes, and at night he and two men went to the woman. “Consult a spirit for me,” he said, “and bring up for me the one I name.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - But the woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done. He has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why have you set a trap for my life to bring about my death?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:10 - Saul swore to her by the LORD, “As surely as the LORD lives, you will not be punished for this.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:12 - When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out at the top of her voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid. What do you see?” The woman said, “I see a ghostly figure[fn] coming up out of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:14 - “What does he look like?” he asked. “An old man wearing a robe is coming up,” she said. Then Saul knew it was Samuel, and he bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am in great distress,” Saul said. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has departed from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:20 - Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, filled with fear because of Samuel’s words. His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and all that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, “Look, your servant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:25 - Then she set it before Saul and his men, and they ate. That same night they got up and left.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:3 - The commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, who was an officer of Saul king of Israel? He has already been with me for over a year, and from the day he left Saul until now, I have found no fault in him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:5 - Isn’t this the David they sang about in their dances: “ ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:2 - The Philistines were in hot pursuit of Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:3 - The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:5 - When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:6 - So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 - When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8 - The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:11 - When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - all their valiant men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:1 - After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - On the third day a man arrived from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4 - “What happened?” David asked. “Tell me.” “The men fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 - Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

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