SHEMUEL

she-mu'-el, shem'-u-el (shemu'el, "name of God" (?) (1 Chronicles 6:33 (18)); the Revised Version (British and American) Samuel, the prophet (see SAMUEL ); compare Gray,HPN , 200, note 3):

(1) The Simeonite appointed to assist in the division of the land (Numbers 34:20). The Massoretic Text should be emended to shelumi'el, to correspond with the form found in Numbers 1:6; 2:12; 7:36,41; 10:19. Septuagint has uniformly Salamiel.

(2) Grandson of Issachar (1 Chronicles 7:2) (Codex Vaticanus Isamouel; Codex Alexandrinus and Lucian, Samouel).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.