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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 beareth a son, and calleth his name Samson, and the youth groweth, and Jehovah doth bless him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth 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 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - And 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - And he goeth down and speaketh to the woman, and she is right in the eyes of Samson;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - And his father goeth down unto the woman, and Samson maketh there a banquet, for so the young men do;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - And 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - And 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?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - And 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!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - and Samson's wife becometh his companion's, who is his friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - And 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - And Samson saith of them, 'I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - And 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - and 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - it 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - And Delilah saith unto Samson, 'Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power is, and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - And she fixeth it with the pin, and saith unto him, 'Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - and 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - and 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - And 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - And 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - and 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.
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