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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 - When her son was born, she named him Samson. And the LORD blessed him as he grew up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - One day when Samson was in Timnah, one of the Philistine women caught his eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - His father and mother objected. “Isn’t there even one woman in our tribe or among all the Israelites you could marry?” they asked. “Why must you go to the pagan Philistines to find a wife?”
But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She looks good to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - As Samson and his parents were going down to Timnah, a young lion suddenly attacked Samson near the vineyards of Timnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - When Samson arrived in Timnah, he talked with the woman and was very pleased with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - As his father was making final arrangements for the marriage, Samson threw a party at Timnah, as was the custom for elite young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle. If you solve my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give you thirty fine linen robes and thirty sets of festive clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - On the fourth[fn] day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle for us, or we will burn down your father’s house with you in it. Did you invite us to this party just to make us poor?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - So Samson’s wife came to him in tears and said, “You don’t love me; you hate me! You have given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.”
“I haven’t even given the answer to my father or mother,” he replied. “Why should I tell you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife. He said, “I’m going into my wife’s room to sleep with her,” but her father wouldn’t let him in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - Samson said, “This time I cannot be blamed for everything I am going to do to you Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - Then he went out and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together in pairs, and he fastened a torch to each pair of tails.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded.
“Samson,” was the reply, “because his father-in-law from Timnah gave Samson’s wife to be married to his best man.” So the Philistines went and got the woman and her father and burned them to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - “Because you did this,” Samson vowed, “I won’t rest until I take my revenge on you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - The men of Judah asked the Philistines, “Why are you attacking us?”
The Philistines replied, “We’ve come to capture Samson. We’ve come to pay him back for what he did to us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - So 3,000 men of Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock of Etam. They said to Samson, “Don’t you realize the Philistines rule over us? What are you doing to us?”
But Samson replied, “I only did to them what they did to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - But the men of Judah told him, “We have come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.”
“All right,” Samson said. “But promise that you won’t kill me yourselves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - Then Samson said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
I’ve piled them in heaps!
With the jawbone of a donkey,
I’ve killed a thousand men!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - One day Samson went to the Philistine town of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - Word soon spread[fn] that Samson was there, so the men of Gaza gathered together and waited all night at the town gates. They kept quiet during the night, saying to themselves, “When the light of morning comes, we will kill him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - But Samson stayed in bed only until midnight. Then he got up, took hold of the doors of the town gate, including the two posts, and lifted them up, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them all the way to the top of the hill across from Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong and what it would take to tie you up securely.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson replied, “If I were tied up with seven new bowstrings that have not yet been dried, I would become as weak as anyone else.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - She had hidden some men in one of the inner rooms of her house, and she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as a piece of string snaps when it is burned by a fire. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - Afterward Delilah said to him, “You’ve been making fun of me and telling me lies! Now please tell me how you can be tied up securely.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and tied him up with them. The men were hiding in the inner room as before, and again Delilah cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But again Samson snapped the ropes from his arms as if they were thread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Then Delilah said, “You’ve been making fun of me and telling me lies! Now tell me how you can be tied up securely.”
Samson replied, “If you were to weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on your loom and tighten it with the loom shuttle, I would become as weak as anyone else.”
So while he slept, Delilah wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - Then she tightened it with the loom shuttle.[fn] Again she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and yanked his hair away from the loom and the fabric.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - Then she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!”
When he woke up, he thought, “I will do as before and shake myself free.” But he didn’t realize the LORD had left him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - The Philistine rulers held a great festival, offering sacrifices and praising their god, Dagon. They said, “Our god has given us victory over our enemy Samson!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - Half drunk by now, the people demanded, “Bring out Samson so he can amuse us!” So he was brought from the prison to amuse them, and they had him stand between the pillars supporting the roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the young servant who was leading him by the hand, “Place my hands against the pillars that hold up the temple. I want to rest against them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the temple was completely filled with people. All the Philistine rulers were there, and there were about 3,000 men and women on the roof who were watching as Samson amused them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Then Samson prayed to the LORD, “Sovereign LORD, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - Then Samson put his hands on the two center pillars that held up the temple. Pushing against them with both hands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - he prayed, “Let me die with the Philistines.” And the temple crashed down on the Philistine rulers and all the people. So he killed more people when he died than he had during his entire lifetime.
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