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According to, Hannah named Samuel in memory of her requesting a child from God and God listening.

Samuel is translated as Heard of God or possibly as a sentence " God has heard " ( from ' Shama ', heard and ' El ', God — with " Shama " as the verb and " El " as the subject ).

Samuel in the Hebrew root word is " sha ’ al " which is mentioned seven times in 1 Samuel 1 and once as " sha ’ ul " ( 1: 28 ), which is Saul ’ s name in Hebrew.

Coogan suggests that Saul ’ s birth narrative was transferred to Samuel by the Deuteronomistic Historians.