Samuel

male
Samuel or Shmu'el is an important leader of ancient Israel in the Book(s) of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. His status, as viewed by rabbinical...

Abimelech

male
Abimelech or Avimelech (אֲבִימֶלֶךְ / אֲבִימָלֶךְ "father/leader of a king; my father/leader, a king", Standard Hebrew Aviméleḫ / Avimáleḫ, T...

Joab

male
Joab (יוֹאָב "The LORD is father", Standard Hebrew Yoʾav, Tiberian Hebrew Yôʾāḇ) was the nephew of King David, the son of Zeruiah in the Bible. H...

Everett Fox

male
Everett Fox is a scholar and translator of the Hebrew Bible. He is currently the Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark...

Eli

male
Eli was, according to the Books of Samuel, the name of a priest of Shiloh, and one of the last Israelite Judges before the rule of kings in ancient...

Elkanah

male
Elkanah was, according to the Books of Samuel, the husband of Hannah, and the father of her children including her first - either Samuel or Saul...

Hannah

female
Hannah (also occasionally transliterated as Chana) was a wife of Elkanah mentioned in the Books of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was...

Benjamin Kennicott

male, deceased (1783)
Benjamin Kennicott (April 4, 1718 - September 18, 1783), was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar. He was born at Totnes, Devon. He succeeded...
Sidney Brichto

Sidney Brichto

male, 73 years old
Rabbi D Sidney Brichto is a British Liberal Jewish rabbi. He was born on 21 July, 1936, in Philadelphia. He briefly lived in New York before moving...

Abigail

female
Abigail (is a female name occurring in Biblical narratives from the Books of Samuel, and reflected in the Books of Chronicles. The name "Abigal"...