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 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןAnd the woman beareth a son, and calleth his name Samson, and the youth groweth, and Jehovah doth bless him,Judges 14:1 · שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹןAnd Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,Judges 14:3 · שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹןAnd his father saith to him—also his mother, ‘Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou art going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?’ and Samson saith unto his father, ‘Take her for me, for she is right in mine eyes.’Judges 14:5 · שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹןAnd Samson goeth down—also his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they come unto the vineyards of Timnath, and lo, a lion’s whelp roareth at meeting him,Judges 14:7 · שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃And he goeth down and speaketh to the woman, and she is right in the eyes of Samson;Judges 14:10 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙And his father goeth down unto the woman, and Samson maketh there a banquet, for so the young men do;Judges 14:12 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Samson saith to them, ‘Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me in the seven days of the banquet, and have found it out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;Judges 14:15 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson’s wife, ‘Entice thy husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and the house of thy father with fire; to possess us have ye called for us? is it not?’Judges 14:16 · שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןAnd Samson’s wife weepeth for it, and saith, ‘Thou hast only hated me, and hast not loved me; the riddle thou hast put forth to the sons of my people—and to me thou hast not declared it;’ and he saith to her, ‘Lo, to my father and to my mother I have not declared it—and to thee I declare it!’Judges 14:20 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןand Samson’s wife becometh his companion’s, who is his friend.Judges 15:1 · שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹןAnd it cometh to pass, after some days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, ‘I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;’ and her father hath not permitted him to go in,Judges 15:3 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Samson saith of them, ‘I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.’Judges 15:4 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Samson goeth and catcheth three hundred foxes, and taketh torches, and turneth tail unto tail, and putteth a torch between the two tails, in the midst,Judges 15:6 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙And the Philistines say, ‘Who hath done this?’ And they say, ‘Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;’ and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.Judges 15:7 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Samson saith to them, ‘Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!’Judges 15:10 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙and the men of Judah say, ‘Why have ye come up against us?’ and they say, ‘To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.’Judges 15:11 · לְשִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןAnd three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, ‘Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what is this thou hast done to us?’ And he saith to them, ‘As they did to me, so I did to them.’Judges 15:12 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd they say to him, ‘To bind thee we have come down—to give thee into the hand of the Philistines.’ And Samson saith to them, ‘Swear to me, lest ye fall upon me yourselves.’Judges 15:16 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Samson saith, ‘With a jaw-bone of the ass—an ass upon asses—with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.’Judges 16:1 · שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹןAnd Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her;Judges 16:2 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙it is told to the Gazathites, saying, ‘Samson hath come in hither;’ and they go round and lay wait for him all the night at the gate of the city, and keep themselves silent all the night, saying, ‘Till the light of the morning—then we have slain him.’Judges 16:3 · שִׁמְשׁוֹן֮And Samson lieth down till the middle of the night, and riseth in the middle of the night, and layeth hold on the doors of the gate of the city, and on the two side posts, and removeth them with the bar, and putteth on his shoulders, and taketh them up unto the top of the hill, which is on the front of Hebron.Judges 16:6 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Delilah saith unto Samson, ‘Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power is, and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.’Judges 16:7 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Samson saith unto her, ‘If they bind me with seven green withs which have not been dried, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.’Judges 16:9 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןAnd the ambush is abiding with her in an inner chamber, and she saith unto him, ‘Philistines are upon thee, Samson;’ and he breaketh the withs as a thread of tow is broken in its smelling fire, and his power hath not been known.Judges 16:10 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Delilah saith unto Samson, ‘Lo, thou hast played upon me, and speakest unto me lies; now, declare, I pray thee, to me, wherewith thou art bound.’Judges 16:12 · שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןAnd Delilah taketh thick bands, new ones, and bindeth him with them, and saith unto him, ‘Philistines are upon thee, Samson;’ and the ambush is abiding in an inner chamber, and he breaketh them from off his arms as a thread.Judges 16:13 · שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןAnd Delilah saith unto Samson, ‘Hitherto thou hast played upon me, and dost speak unto me lies; declare to me wherewith thou art bound.’ And he saith unto her, ‘If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.’Judges 16:20 · שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןand she saith, ‘Philistines are upon thee, Samson;’ and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, ‘I go out as time by time, and shake myself;’ and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him.Judges 16:23 · שִׁמְשׁ֥וֹןand the princes of the Philistines have been gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; and they say, ‘Our god hath given into our hand Samson our enemy.’Judges 16:25 · לְשִׁמְשׁ֖וֹן · לְשִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןAnd it cometh to pass, when their heart is glad, that they say, ‘Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;’ and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars.Judges 16:26 · שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןAnd Samson saith unto the young man who is keeping hold on his hand, ‘Let me alone, and let me feel the pillars on which the house is established, and I lean upon them.’Judges 16:27 · שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃And the house hath been full of men and of women, and thither are all the princes of the Philistines, and on the roof are about three thousand men and women, who are looking on the playing of Samson.Judges 16:28 · שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹןAnd Samson calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, ‘Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray Thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this time, O God; and I am avenged—vengeance at once—because of my two eyes, on the Philistines.’Judges 16:29 · שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןAnd Samson turneth aside to the two middle pillars, on which the house is established, and on which it is supported, to the one with his right hand, and one with his left;Judges 16:30 · שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןand Samson saith, ‘Let me die with the Philistines,’ and he inclineth himself powerfully, and the house falleth on the princes, and on all the people who are in it, and the dead whom he hath put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life.