1 Samuel 18:12:21 Sam.18.12.W2TAB
שָׁא֖וּל
shaul
“Saul”
- Transliteration
- sha-UL
- Extended
- shaa-OOL
- IPA
- /ʃaːˈʔuːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- Saul
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sha-UL
- phraseyour reading level
va-yi-RA sha-UL
- clause
va-yi-RA sha-UL mi-li-fe-NE da-VID
- sentence
va-yi-RA sha-UL mi-li-fe-NE da-VID KI-ha-YA ye-ho-VAH i-MO u-me-IM sha-UL SAR
Exegesis
In contrast, û-mê-ʿim Šāʾûl sār {וּמֵעִ֥ם שָׁא֖וּל סָֽר | û-mê-ʿim šāʾûl sār} ‘and had departed from Saul’ completes a chiastic parallelism that highlights divine presence and absence. The perfect tense of hāyâ and sār denotes completed actions, and the shift from verb-initial Hebrew to subject-verb-object English preserves both theological emphasis and narrative clarity.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–aleph–lamed
“asked”
In context — 1 Samuel 18:12
And Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with him, but He had departed from Saul.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 18:12:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 1 Samuel 18:12, so the Hebrew word שָׁא֖וּל (shaul) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Sam.18.12.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.18.12.W2.S1) and character.