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▪ Jeffery1938: »Some of the early authorities know that it was a foreign word. Bayḍ. tells us thatit is ĭsm ʕibrī, and al-Jawālīqī, Muʕarrab, 103; al-Ḫafāǧī, 128, give it as non-Arabic. / The Hbr word is Šāʔûl¹ and none of the Christian forms derived therefrom give us any parallel to ṭālūt. The philologers derive his name from ṭāla ‘to be tall’, evidently influenced by the Biblical story, as we see from Bagh. on ii, 248. Geiger, 182, suggested that ṭālūt was a rhyming formation from ṭāla to parallel ǧālūt. The word is not known earlier than the Qurʔān,² and would seem to be a formation of Muḥammad himself from Šāʔûl, a name which he may not have heard or remembered correctly, and formed probably under the influence of ṭāla to rhyme with ǧālūt.³ .«

1. This was known to the Commentators, e.g. al-Thaʕlabī, Qiṣaṣ, 185, says that his name in Hbr is Šāwul bin Qays, which is a very fair representation of Šāʔûl ben Qīš. 2. The occurrenee in Samawʔal is obviously not genuine; cf. Nöldeke, ZA, xxvii, 178. 3. Horovitz, KU, 123; JPN, 163.

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▪ Engl Saul : not from Ar, but from the same source

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