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1 Samuel: 8

1 Samuel Chapter 8 1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second,…

1 Samuel: 9

1 Samuel Chapter 9 1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of…

Hoare, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Hoare, Samuel: see Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount.

Shalim, Land of

(Encyclopedia) Shalim, Land ofShalim, Land ofshāˈlĭm [key], in 1 Samuel, unidentified region, perhaps N of Jerusalem.

Provoost, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Provoost, SamuelProvoost, Samuelprōˈvōst [key], 1742–1815, first Episcopal bishop of New York, b. New York City, grad. King's College (now Columbia Univ.), 1758. He studied at…

Gompers, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Gompers, SamuelGompers, Samuelgŏmˈpərz [key], 1850–1924, American labor leader, b. London. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1863. He worked as a cigar maker and in…

Huntington, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Huntington, Samuel, 1731–96, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Windham, Conn. He was a delegate (1775–84) to and president (…

Frug, Simeon Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Frug, Simeon SamuelFrug, Simeon Samuelsĭmyônˈ səm&oomacr;ēlˈ fr&oomacr;k [key], 1860–1916, Russian-Jewish lyricist and writer. His poems, dealing mainly with Zionist themes,…