A Judge living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.13.24; 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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H8123 — שִׁמְשׁוֹן
shim.shon · Samson · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Judges 13:24 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןSo the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.Judges 14:1 · שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹןOne day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.Judges 14:3 · שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹןBut his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”Judges 14:5 · שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹןThen Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,Judges 14:7 · שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.Judges 14:10 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.Judges 14:12 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.Judges 14:15 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙So 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 14:16 · שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןThen Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”Judges 14:20 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןand his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.Judges 15:1 · שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹןLater on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.Judges 15:3 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןSamson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”Judges 15:4 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןThen Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.Judges 15:6 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.Judges 15:7 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”Judges 15:10 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙“Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”Judges 15:11 · לְשִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןIn response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.Judges 15:12 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןBut they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”Judges 15:16 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןThen Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”Judges 16:1 · שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹןOne day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.Judges 16:2 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”Judges 16:3 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֮But 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 16:6 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןSo Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”Judges 16:7 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןSamson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”Judges 16:9 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןWhile the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.Judges 16:10 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןThen Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”Judges 16:12 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןSo Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.Judges 16:13 · שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןThen Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”Judges 16:20 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןThen she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.Judges 16:23 · שִׁמְשׁ֥וֹןNow the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”Judges 16:25 · לְשִׁמְשׁ֖וֹן · לְשִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןAnd while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.Judges 16:26 · שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןSamson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”Judges 16:27 · שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.Judges 16:28 · שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹןThen Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”Judges 16:29 · שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןAnd Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,Judges 16:30 · שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןSamson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.