Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H7586

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: שָׁאוּל

Transliteration: shaw-ool'

Definition: passive participle of שָׁאַל; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites

KJV Definition: Saul, Shaul

Verse usage

  • 1 Samuel 18:1 NASB
    Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
  • 1 Samuel 18:2 NASB
    Saul took him that day and did not let him return to his father's house.
  • 1 Samuel 18:5 NASB
    So David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] prospered; and Saul set him over the men of war. And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
  • 1 Samuel 18:6 NASB
    It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments.
  • 1 Samuel 18:7 NASB
    The women sang as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands."
  • 1 Samuel 18:8 NASB
    Then Saul became very angry, for this saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?"
  • 1 Samuel 18:9 NASB
    Saul looked at David with suspicion from that day on.
  • 1 Samuel 18:10 NASB
    Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing [the harp] with his hand, as usual; and a spear [was] in Saul's hand.
  • 1 Samuel 18:11 NASB
    Saul hurled the spear for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David escaped from his presence twice.
  • 1 Samuel 18:12 NASB
    Now Saul was afraid of David, for the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul.
  • 1 Samuel 18:13 NASB
    Therefore Saul removed him from his presence and appointed him as his commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
  • 1 Samuel 18:15 NASB
    When Saul saw that he was prospering greatly, he dreaded him.
  • 1 Samuel 18:17 NASB
    Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight the LORD'S battles." For Saul thought, "My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."
  • 1 Samuel 18:18 NASB
    But David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be the king's son-in-law?"
  • 1 Samuel 18:19 NASB
    So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
  • 1 Samuel 18:20 NASB
    Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. When they told Saul, the thing was agreeable to him.
  • 1 Samuel 18:21 NASB
    Saul thought, "I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David, "For a second time you may be my son-in-law today."
  • 1 Samuel 18:22 NASB
    Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David secretly, saying, 'Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now therefore, become the king's son-in-law.'"
  • 1 Samuel 18:23 NASB
    So Saul's servants spoke these words to David. But David said, "Is it trivial in your sight to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?"
  • 1 Samuel 18:24 NASB
    The servants of Saul reported to him according to these words [which] David spoke.