Now Samuel
Shmuw'el (sehm-oo-ale')
heard of God; Shemuel, the name of three Israelites -- Samuel, Shemuel.
was dead
muwth (mooth)
causatively, to kill
and all Israel
Yisra'el (yis-raw-ale')
he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
had lamented
caphad (saw-fad')
to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail -- lament, mourn(-er), wail.
him and buried
qabar (kaw-bar')
to inter -- in any wise, bury(-ier).
him in Ramah
Ramah (raw-maw')
Ramah, the name of four places in Palestine -- Ramah.
even in his own city
`iyr (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
And Saul
Sha'uwl (shaw-ool')
asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites -- Saul, Shaul.
had put away
cuwr (soor)
to turn off (literal or figurative)
those that had familiar spirits
'owb (obe)
a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar) -- bottle, familiar spirit.
and the wizards
yidd`oniy (yid-deh-o-nee')
a knowing one; specifically, a conjurer; (by impl) a ghost -- wizard.
out of the land
'erets (eh'-rets)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world.
