Samuel

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Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Samuel Elijah 1
Samuele 1
Samuele (related form in Italian for Samuel) 1

Statements (58)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew given name
given name
masculine given name
associatedWith prophet Samuel in the Hebrew Bible
hasDiminutive Sam
surface form: Sammy
hasGender masculine
hasLanguageForm Amharic
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Gujarati
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Igbo
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Marathi language
surface form: Marathi

Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi

Romanian language
surface form: Romanian

Russian
Slovak
Spanish
Swahili language
surface form: Swahili

Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Telugu
Turkish
Ukrainian
Yoruba
hasMeaning God has heard
name of God
hasOrigin Hebrew language
hasShortForm Sam
hasVariant Samu
Samuel self-linksurface differs
surface form: Samuele

Shmuel
surface form: Samuil

Samuel self-linksurface differs
surface form: Samuël

Shmuel
isBiblicalName true
usedInReligion Christianity
Islam
Judaism

Referenced by (66)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Samuel Sewall givenName Samuel
Sewall givenName Samuel
subject surface form: Samuel Sewall
Samuel Church hasGivenName Samuel
Sam hasSpellingVariant Samuel
this entity surface form: Samuele (related form in Italian for Samuel)
Samuel hasVariant Samuel self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Samuël
Samuel hasVariant Samuel self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Samuele
Sam isShortFor Samuel
King Saul mentor Samuel
Chronicles relatedTo Samuel