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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 - And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - So his father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - And Samson said to them, I will now propose a riddle to you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take what we possess? is it not so?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast proposed a riddle to the children of my people, and hast not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it to my father nor to my mother, and shall I tell it to thee?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a fire-brand in the midst between two tails.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, to do to him as he hath done to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - And they said to him, We have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they encompassed him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning when it is day we shall kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that is before Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength lieth, and with what thou mayest be bound to afflict thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green withs, that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - (Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber.) And she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, with what thou mayest be bound.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. (And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber.) And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - And Delilah said to Samson, hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with what thou mayest be bound. And he said to her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - And she said, the Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD had departed from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - Then the lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars upon which the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women: and all the lords of the Philistines were there: and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - And Samson called to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was supported, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
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