Shmuel

Shmuel , also Shmuel (of Hebrew. שְׁמוּאֵל, ʃmuʔel , Schmu'el) is a male first name .

Origin and meaning

Shmuel is the name of a biblical prophet and is usually rendered as Samuel in German Bible translations . The derivation of the name in Hebrew is difficult, even if the Bible in 1 Sam 1,20 EU made a statement: "And they gave him the name Schmu'el because of YHWH I have asked him." The word for ask is clam 'al , the passive participle is scha'ul (from which the name שָׁאוּל, Saul ). The Hebrew word for God is El . The letter mem (the M ) in the name Schmu'el could be explained in German with the preposition of . Seen in this way, the whole name is a statement: “Requested by God”, which is a short description of the circumstances of his birth and emphasizes the situation of his mother Hanna .

variants

Samuel

Well-known namesake

First name

Shmuel Agmon (* 1922), Israeli mathematician
Shmuel Archevolti (~ 1515–1611), Jewish grammarian
Shmuel Ashkenasi (* 1941), Israeli violinist
Shmuel Dajan (1891–1968), Israeli writer and politician
Shmuel Elijahu (* 1956), Israeli rabbi
Shmuel ha-Nagid (993-1056), Grand Vizier of the Kingdom of Granada
Schmuel Pivnik (1926–2017), Holocaust survivor, contemporary witness and author
Shmuel Rodensky (1904–1989), Israeli-Lithuanian actor
Schmuel Rosenthal (* 1947), Israeli national soccer player
Schmuel Katz (1914–2008), Israeli politician, writer and historian
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (1923-2010), Israeli sociologist
Shmuel Sambursky (1900–1990), Israeli science historian
Shmuel Tamir (1923–1987), Israeli politician and Minister of Justice

Intermediate name

Beer Schmuel Issachar ben Jehuda Löw Eibschiz Perlhefter (1650–1713), Jewish scholar and rabbi