Definitions
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- proper noun A male
given name . - proper noun One of two books of the
Old Testament and theHebrew Tanakh . - proper noun The primary author and central character of the first book of Samuel.
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- noun (Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
Etymologies
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As an outsider, as a Jew born in the East End of London, he would put his considerable energies into seeking and winning acceptance for the name Samuel at the highest levels of British society.
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As an outsider, as a Jew born in the East End of London, he would put his considerable energies into seeking and winning acceptance for the name Samuel at the highest levels of British society.
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I thought at the time he might have been inflating his own work, but when I go back and read the scientific journals of that period I see that he was right: the name Samuel Nelson is mentioned in the same articles that trace the experiments that yielded the Nobel Prize.
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I thought at the time he might have been inflating his own work, but when I go back and read the scientific journals of that period I see that he was right: the name Samuel Nelson is mentioned in the same articles that trace the experiments that yielded the Nobel Prize.
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According to the dictionary, the name Samuel originally comes from the Hebrew Shemuel, which means literally “name of God.”
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Moreover, my informal questioning of hundreds of individuals over more than fifteen years since then is that most people have no idea, either; not even many religious Jews know what the name Samuel means or where it comes from.
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Another match for the name "Samuel Jackson" returned a Virginia man convicted of aggravated sexual battery and sentenced to life in prison, where he remains today.
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Have a charming vacation, spend your holiday bucks on the river that gave Mark Twain his name Samuel Clemens was a Mississippi riverboat pilot for a time.
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RITA-award-winning author and WU contributor Barbara Samuel is auctioning off some critiques on eBay in order to raise money for the AVON breast cancer walk in late June.
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RITA-award-winning author and WU contributor Barbara Samuel is auctioning off some critiques on eBay in order to raise money for the AVON breast cancer walk in late June.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Bid on a Critique by Barbara Samuel!
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