שִׁמְשׁוֹן
shim.shon
“Samson”
Definition
Shimshon, an Israelite
from H8121 (שֶׁמֶשׁ); sunlight;
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Grammar & Morphology
Proper Noun (Masculine)
N:N-M-P
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
שִׁמְשׁוֹן appears 37 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!”But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.
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