Bible Names

Samuel: meaning of the name

Samuel means “heard of God; asked of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Samuel in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁמוּאֵל H8050

Shᵉmûwʼêl (sehm-oo-ale') — Shemuel, the name of three Israelites

from the passive participle of H8085 (שָׁמַע) and H410 (אֵל); heard of God;

Σαμουήλ G4545

Samouḗl — Samuel (i.e. Shemuel), an Israelite

of Hebrew origin (H08050);

Who named Samuel in the Bible

Samuel in Scripture

“Samuel” appears in 121 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Samuel 1:20

    Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 2:18

    But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

  • 1 Samuel 2:21

    And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 2:26

    And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.

  • 1 Samuel 3:1

    And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

  • 1 Samuel 3:3

    And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

  • 1 Samuel 3:4

    That the Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

  • 1 Samuel 3:6

    And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.