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Lexicon :: Strong's H8123 - šimšôn

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שִׁמְשׁוֹן
Transliteration
šimšôn
Pronunciation
shim-shone'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

שִׁמְשׁוֹן Shimshôwn, shim-shone'; from H8121; sunlight; Shimshon, an Israelite:—Samson.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H8123 in the following manner: Samson (38x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H8123 in the following manner: Samson (38x).

  1. Samson = "like the sun"

    1. a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שִׁמְשׁוֹן Shimshôwn, shim-shone'; from H8121; sunlight; Shimshon, an Israelite:—Samson.
STRONGS H8123: Abbreviations
שִׁמְשׁוֺן 38 proper name, masculine Samson (Assyrian proper name Šamšânu, HilprMurâshu 27. 70; on שמש in Arabic proper name, of a tribe compare NöZMG x1 (1886), 166); — Σαμψων: Judges 13:24; Judges 14:1, 3 + 35 times Judges 14; Judges 15; 16
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

13:24; 14; 14:1; 14:3; 15; 16

H8123

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8123 matches the Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן (šimšôn),
which occurs 38 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - Manoah's wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the LORD empowered him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and mother said to him, "Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines." But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, because she is the right one for me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Samson went down to Timnah. When he approached the vineyards of Timnah, he saw a roaring young lion attacking him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - Samson continued on down to Timnah and spoke to the girl. In his opinion, she was just the right one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - Then Samson's father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - Samson said to them, "I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - On the fourth day they said to Samson's bride, "Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle. If you refuse, we will burn up you and your father's family. Did you invite us here to make us poor?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - So Samson's bride cried on his shoulder and said, "You must hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men a riddle, but you have not told me the solution." He said to her, "Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - Samson's bride was then given to his best man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father, "I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!" But her father would not let him enter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - Samson said to them, "This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - The Philistines asked, "Who did this?" They were told, "Samson, the Timnite's son-in-law, because the Timnite took Samson's bride and gave her to his best man." So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - The men of Judah said, "Why are you attacking us?" The Philistines said, "We have come up to take Samson prisoner so we can do to him what he has done to us."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?" He said to them, "I have only done to them what they have done to me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - They said to him, "We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Promise me you will not kill me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - Samson then said, "With the jawbone of a donkey I have left them in heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here!" So they surrounded the town and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave. They relaxed all night, thinking, "He will not leave until morning comes; then we will kill him!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, "If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - They hid in the bedroom and then she said to him, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. The secret of his strength was not discovered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - Delilah said to Samson, "Look, you deceived me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Delilah said to Samson, "Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued." He said to her, "If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on the loom and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He woke up and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - She said, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He woke up and thought, "I will do as I did before and shake myself free." But he did not realize that the LORD had left him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, "Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - When they really started celebrating, they said, "Call for Samson so he can entertain us!" So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. They made him stand between two pillars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the young man who held his hand, "Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple. Then I can lean on them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Samson called to the LORD, "O Master, LORD, remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge against the Philistines for my two eyes!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He pushed hard and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life.
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