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Lexicon :: Strong's G4546 - sampsōn

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Σαμψών
Transliteration
sampsōn (Key)
Pronunciation
samp-sone'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin (G8123)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
43x in 1 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

Σαμψών Sampsṓn, samp-sone'; of Hebrew origin (H8123); Sampson (i.e. Shimshon), an Israelite:—Samson.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G4546 in the following manner: Samson (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G4546 in the following manner: Samson (1x).

  1. Samson = "like the sun"

    1. a famous judge of Israel renowned for his physical strength

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Σαμψών Sampsṓn, samp-sone'; of Hebrew origin (H8123); Sampson (i.e. Shimshon), an Israelite:—Samson.
STRONGS G4546:
Σαμψών (שִׁמְשׁון from שֶׁמֶשׁ, 'sun-like', cf. Hebrew אִישׁון from אִישׁ) (Buttmann, 15 (14)), ὁ, Samson (Vulg. Samson), one of the Israelite judges (שֹׁפְטִים), famous for his strength and courage, the Hebrew Hercules (cf. BB. DD.; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word 2, 4; especially Orelli in Herzog edition 2, under the word Simson) (Judges 13ff): Hebrews 11:32.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Judges
13
Hebrews
11:32

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4546 matches the Greek Σαμψών (sampsōn),
which occurs 43 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the LORD blessed him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - His father and mother replied, “Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - On the fourth[fn] day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father’s home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - And Samson’s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.” But her father would not let him go in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - Samson said to them, “This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - When the Philistines asked, “Who did this?” they were told, “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - Samson said to them, “Since you’ve acted like this, I swear that I won’t stop until I get my revenge on you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - The people of Judah asked, “Why have you come to fight us?” “We have come to take Samson prisoner,” they answered, “to do to him as he did to us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?” He answered, “I merely did to them what they did to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - They said to him, “We’ve come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said, “Swear to me that you won’t kill me yourselves.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - Then Samson said, “With a donkey’s jawbone I have made donkeys of them.[fn] With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - The people of Gaza were told, “Samson is here!” So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, “At dawn we’ll kill him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - With men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Delilah then said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.” He replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I’ll become as weak as any other man.” So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - and[fn] tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - While they were in high spirits, they shouted, “Bring out Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them. When they stood him among the pillars,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Then Samson prayed to the LORD, “Sovereign LORD, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
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