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The Name of Samuel and The Stem

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Generally the writer contents himself with a single reference to the interpretation of a person's name given in the account of his birth, but in the case of Samuel, as in that of Isaac, he dwells upon the interpretation with an emphasis which is unmistakable and which is clearly intentional.2 It is not surprising, in view of the difficulties involved in the first chapter of Samuel where the birth of Samuel is narrated and the reasons for his name are given, that this name has been the subject of considerable discussion.

The older explanations rested on the assumption that the etymology proposed in the Book of Samuel formed a reliable startingpoint. According to this etymology Samuel was so called because he had been 'asked for' from Yahweh. So Kamhi suggests that ttttf is a contraction of ^X£ TiXtt?, which became by syncope and then Stfiatf. Ewald (Heb. Gram., p. 275, note 3) is inclined to accept this view, but Thenius3 properly objects to its artificiality.

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222.4

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California : University of California Libraries., 2024

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p. 83-105,

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English

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222.4

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Samuel Bible

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Morris Jastrow

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