Saul

From Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl, “asked for”). Doublet of Silas.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sɔːl/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /sɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl, -ɑl

Saul

1. (Christianity, Judaism) The first king of Israel in the Old Testament.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 16:23, column 2:

     And it came to paſſe, when the euill ſpirit from God was vpon Saul, that Dauid tooke an harpe, and played with his hand: So Saul was refreſhed, and was well, and the euill ſpirit departed from him.

2. (Christianity) The Hebrew name of Apostle Paul in the New Testament.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:9, column 2:

     Then Saul (who alſo is called Paul) filled with the holy Ghoſt, ſet his eyes on him

3. A male given name from Hebrew.
   • 2000, Peter Abrahams, Crying Wolf, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

     “You got an uncle named Saul?” “I never mentioned him?” “What are you saying —you got some Jewish guy for an uncle?” “He's not Jewish. It's just a name they have back in the old country.”

4. A surname.
5. A village in Fretherne with Saul parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7409).
6. A village near Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland.
7. An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

• Auls, Luas, ULAS, ULAs, alus, auls

From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑu̯l/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝u̯l]
• Rhymes: -ɑul
• Syllabification^(key): Saul

Saul

1. (biblical) Saul
2. a male given name

• Saul is the 844^th (tied with 2 other names) most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 143 male individuals (and as a middle name to 83 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl, “asked for”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.uːl/, [ˈs̠äuːɫ̪]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ul/, [ˈsäːul]

Saūl m sg (variously declined, genitive Saūl or Saūlis); indeclinable, third declension

1. Saul, the first king of Israel

Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Saul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Saul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin Saūl, from Koine Greek Σαούλ (Saoúl), from Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (šāʾûl).

Saul m

1. Saul (first king of Israel)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 30^a3

     Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in fortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.

     As what is done in this is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ul, (Brazil) -uw
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ul

Saul m

1. (biblical) Saul (first king of Israel)