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Lexicon :: Strong's H8123 - šimšôn

Aa
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 BoxJdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - So he went down and had talk with the woman; and she was pleasing to Samson.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by some trick or other, or we will have you and your father's house burned with fire; did you get us here to take all we have?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride'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 - Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his friend. So the Philistines came up and had her and her father's house burned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to take Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And Samson was there till the middle of the night; then he got up, and took a grip on the doors of the town, pulling them up, together with their two supports and their locks, and put them on his back and took them up to the top of the hill in front of Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Samson said to her, If seven new bow-cords which have never been made dry are knotted round me, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - Now she had men waiting secretly in the inner room; and she said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And the cords were broken by him as a twist of thread is broken when touched by a flame. So the secret of his strength did not come to light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - Then Delilah said to Samson, See, you have been making sport of me with false words; now, say truly how may you be put in bands?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new thick cords, knotting them tightly round him, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And men were waiting secretly in the inner room. And the cords were broken off his arms like threads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - So while he was sleeping she got the seven twists of his hair worked into her cloth and fixed with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. Then awaking from his sleep, he got up quickly, pulling up cloth and machine together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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 about three thousand men and women were on the roof, looking on while Samson made sport.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - And Samson, crying out to the Lord, said, O Lord God, do have me now in mind, and do make me strong only this once, O God, so that I may take one last payment from the Philistines for my two eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - Then Samson put his arms round the two middle pillars supporting the house, putting his weight on them, on one with his right hand and on the other with his left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.
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