noun · masculine
saoul
Strong’sG4549
Saul
stem saoul-9 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Σαούλ, ὁ indecl.
(in FlJ, Σάουλος; Heb. שָׁאוּל)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4549 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsah-ool'
Saul (i.e. Shaul), the Jewish name of Paul
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesSaul.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
an adjective descriptive of gait and carriage, defined as τὸ φαῦλον καὶ διερρυηκός by Refs 5th c.BC+; σαῦλα ποσὶν βαίνουσα, applied to the gait of the tortoise, straddling, waddling, Refs; of the loose, wanton gait of courtesans or Bacchantes, σ. βαίνειν Refs 6th c.BC+; also of a prancing horse, σ. βαίνειν, ἵππος ὡς κορωνίης Refs 7th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | saoul | saoul |
| object accusative | saoul1×Σαοὺλ | saoul |
| direct address vocative | saoul8×Σαοὺλ | saoul |
| of, belonging to genitive | saoul | saoul |
| to, for dative | saoul | saoul |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
saoul“Saul”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 13:21… kai dōata autoi tos theos ton Saoul huion Kis, andron ek fulau Beniamin, …… a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe …
saoul“Saul”direct addressvocative singular8×
Acts 9:4… tan gēan akouata fōnan legarōntan auto Saoul Saoul, tinem min diōkasō?… heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
Acts 9:4… gēan akouata fōnan legarōntan auto Saoul Saoul, tinem min diōkasō?… a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
Acts 9:17… epititharantos epi auton tain cheirain legata; Saoul adelfor, tos kurios apostelatē min, Iēsus …… placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who …
Acts 22:7… edafem kai akouama fōnau legarōntau mi; Saoul Saoul, tinem min diōkasō?… heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’
Acts 22:7… kai akouama fōnau legarōntau mi; Saoul Saoul, tinem min diōkasō?… a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’
Acts 22:13… pros min kai epistēarantos legata mi; Saoul adelfor, anablepasar; kamis auta ta hōra …came and stood beside me. ‘Brother Saul,’ he said, ‘receive your sight.’ And …
Acts 26:14… legarōntan pros min ta Hebraida dialekta; Saoul Saoul, tinem min diōkasō? sklērem si …… voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me …
Acts 26:14… pros min ta Hebraida dialekta; Saoul Saoul, tinem min diōkasō? sklērem si pros …… say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It …