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Shemuel
Heard of God. (1.) The son of Ammihud. He represented Simeon in the division of the land (Num 34:20).
(2.) Used for “Samuel” (1 Chr 6:33, R.V.).
(3.) A prince of the tribe of Issachar (1 Chr 7:2).
Named in the Bible
3 verses
- Numbers 34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.