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Samuel (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
: ?????????, Standard
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 Tiberian
Tiberian vocalization

Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct but very well documented oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew language, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by Masoretes scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias, in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century....
 ) is a leader of ancient Israel
History of ancient Israel and Judah

The history of ancient Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah is known to us essentially from the Hebrew Bible . Certain aspects of that history may also be derived from, elaborated and confirmed by other ancient sources and later classical writings such as the Talmud, the writings of Nicolaus of Damascus, Artapanus of Alexandria, Philo of A...
 in the Book(s) of Samuel
Books of Samuel

The Books of Samuel are part of the Tanakh and also of the Christianity Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew language, and the Book of Samuel originally formed a single text, as they are often considered today in Hebrew bibles....
 in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
.

His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges
Biblical judges

Biblical judges were chief magistrates of the Israelites in the ancients' sense , distinct from modern, merely judicial judges. While judge is the closest literal translation of the Hebrew language used in the masoretic text, the position is more one of unelected non-hereditary leadership than that of legal pronouncement....
 and the first of the major prophets
Prophet

In religion, a prophet is a person who has claimed to have encountered the supernatural or the Divinity, often one who serves as an intermediary with humanity....
 who began to prophesy inside the Land of Israel
Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
. He was thus at the cusp between two eras.

According to the text of the Book(s) of Samuel, he also anointed
Anointed

Anointed is a Contemporary Christian music Quartet consisting of siblings Steve Crawford and Da'dra Crawford-Greathouse, along with Nissi Walls-Allen and Mary Tiller-Woods....
 the first two kings of the Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Israel

The Kingdom of Israel was one of the successor states to the older United Monarchy . It existed roughly from the 930s BC until about the 720s BC....
: King Saul
Saul the King

Saul is identified in the Books of Samuel, Books of Chronicles and Qur'an as the first king of the ancient united United Monarchy. Saul was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah during the closing decades of the 2nd millennium BC....
 and King David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
.

Name
According to , Hannah
Hannah (Bible)

Hannah was a wife of Elkanah mentioned in the Books of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel . The Hebrew word "Hannah" has many meanings and interpretations such as beauty or passion....
 was the mother of Samuel and named him in memory of her requesting a child from God and God listening.






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Samuel (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
: ?????????, Standard
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 Tiberian
Tiberian vocalization

Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct but very well documented oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew language, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by Masoretes scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias, in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century....
 ) is a leader of ancient Israel
History of ancient Israel and Judah

The history of ancient Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah is known to us essentially from the Hebrew Bible . Certain aspects of that history may also be derived from, elaborated and confirmed by other ancient sources and later classical writings such as the Talmud, the writings of Nicolaus of Damascus, Artapanus of Alexandria, Philo of A...
 in the Book(s) of Samuel
Books of Samuel

The Books of Samuel are part of the Tanakh and also of the Christianity Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew language, and the Book of Samuel originally formed a single text, as they are often considered today in Hebrew bibles....
 in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
.

His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges
Biblical judges

Biblical judges were chief magistrates of the Israelites in the ancients' sense , distinct from modern, merely judicial judges. While judge is the closest literal translation of the Hebrew language used in the masoretic text, the position is more one of unelected non-hereditary leadership than that of legal pronouncement....
 and the first of the major prophets
Prophet

In religion, a prophet is a person who has claimed to have encountered the supernatural or the Divinity, often one who serves as an intermediary with humanity....
 who began to prophesy inside the Land of Israel
Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
. He was thus at the cusp between two eras.

According to the text of the Book(s) of Samuel, he also anointed
Anointed

Anointed is a Contemporary Christian music Quartet consisting of siblings Steve Crawford and Da'dra Crawford-Greathouse, along with Nissi Walls-Allen and Mary Tiller-Woods....
 the first two kings of the Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Israel

The Kingdom of Israel was one of the successor states to the older United Monarchy . It existed roughly from the 930s BC until about the 720s BC....
: King Saul
Saul the King

Saul is identified in the Books of Samuel, Books of Chronicles and Qur'an as the first king of the ancient united United Monarchy. Saul was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah during the closing decades of the 2nd millennium BC....
 and King David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
.

Name


According to , Hannah
Hannah (Bible)

Hannah was a wife of Elkanah mentioned in the Books of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel . The Hebrew word "Hannah" has many meanings and interpretations such as beauty or passion....
 was the mother of Samuel and named him in memory of her requesting a child from God and God listening. However, this position is disputed by some textual scholars
Textual criticism

Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the Writing of manuscripts....
 who consider that the passage originally referred to Saul, and was later doctored. For the suggested etymology of the passage to work for the name Samuel requires it to be translated as Heard of God ('Shama', heard; 'El', god/El (a god)
El (god)

is the Northwest Semitic languages word for "deity" , cognate to Arabic and Akkadian .In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, El or Il was the supreme god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the Goddess Asherah as attested in the tablets of Ugarit....
), or possibly as a sentence "God has heard", with "Shama" as the verb and "El" as the subject. Saul on the other hand means asked, and so certain scholars think an anti-monarchial editor changed the narrative so that Saul would no longer appear to have a divinely appointed birth.

Another conceivable translation of Hebrew (Shmu'el in Hebrew) is Name of God (from Shem, meaning name), a reference to the Tetragrammaton
Tetragrammaton

Tetragrammaton The letters, properly read from right to left , are:|-! Hebrew !! Letter name !! Pronunciation|-valign=top| ?'...
. However, in some contexts, Shem can also mean son, and hence Samuel might mean son of El or son of God (translating El). While son of El (or Name of God) could imply that Samuel is a cipher for Yahweh
Yahweh

Image:Tetragrammaton scripts.svg[Aramaic alphabet|Aramaic]] and Hebrew alphabet Yahweh is the English rendering of , a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton that was proposed by the Hebrew scholar Gesenius in the 19th century....
 (considered by some Biblical scholars
Biblical criticism

Biblical criticism is "the study and investigation of biblical writings that seeks to make discerning and discriminating judgments about these writings." It asks when and where a particular text originated; how, why, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances it was produced; what influences were at work in its production; what sources we...
 to have been a son of El, in the Canaan
Canaan

Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
ite pantheon), the term son of God
Son of God

Son of God is a phrase found in the Hebrew Bible, various other Jewish texts and the Christian Bible. In the Tanakh, according to Judaism religious tradition, Son of God has many possible meanings, referring to angels, or humans or even all mankind....
 was simply a generic term for someone who was seen as particularly holy (in particular a senior priest), and hence may only have been a description not his name.

Another possible translation is "His name is El".

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