SAMUEL

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• SAMUEL (noun)
  The noun SAMUEL has 1 sense:

1. (Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king

  Familiarity information: SAMUEL used as a noun is very rare.

• SAMUEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

A team led by Dr. Samuel Wilson at NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) set out to determine how DNA polymerase inserts damaged nucleotides when assembling DNA strands.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)

My biblical knowledge is a trifle rusty, I fear, but you will find the story in the first or second of Samuel.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Meg, as the eldest, was Samuel Pickwick, Jo, being of a literary turn, Augustus Snodgrass, Beth, because she was round and rosy, Tracy Tupman, and Amy, who was always trying to do what she couldn't, was Nathaniel Winkle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna; the third was to Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, bankers, Buda-Pesth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)