Damien F. Mackey writes:
I had once surmised that the name, Samuel, might have been of Egyptian origin, and this has been picked up at:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27089&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45
as follows:
Samuel
It could be that the name `Samuel' is of Egyptian origin according to Damien Mackey. In that case `Moses, or Mu-sa (re) could be read Sa-Mu, with God `El', replacing the Egyptian theophoric, Re.
What it means for Israel to desire a king to rule over them - 1. Samuel 8. 8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel"".
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I was quite wrong about this, as the First Book of Samuel distinctly tells us the meaning of the name (as referred to by Wikipedia):
According to 1 Samuel 1:20, 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).[1]
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