HebrewH8123Proper Noun (Masculine)

שִׁמְשׁוֹן

shim.shon

37Occurrences
H8123Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shimshon, an Israelite

from H8121 (שֶׁמֶשׁ); sunlight;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A Judge living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Manoah (H4495); married to Delilah (H1807) Also named: Sampsōn (*Σαμψών *"Samson" G4546) § Samson = "like the sun" a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שִׁמְשׁוֹן appears 37 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
37

Key Passages

Judges 13:24BSB

So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.

Judges 14:15BSB

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?”

Judges 15:7BSB

And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

Judges 16:3BSB

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.

Judges 16:14BSB

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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