Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8123
שִׁמְשׁוֹן
Shimshonshim-shone'
Samson
38 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Shimshôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8123is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8123
Shimshon, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Samson.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Shimshon is rendered "Samson". It stands 38 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Thirty-eight of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 13:24So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Judges 13:24שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirty-eight of the word's thirty-eight uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Samson31
- O Samson4
- to Samson3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁמְעֹנִי | Shimoni | Simeon | Uses4 |
| שִׁמֻּר | shimmur | vigil | Uses2 |
| שִׁמְעִי | Shimi | Shimeite | Uses2 |
| שִׁמָּמוֹן | shimmamon | horror | Uses2 |
| שִׁמְצָה | shimtsah | derision | Uses1 |
| שִׁמְעָתִי | Shimathi | Shimeathite | Uses1 |
| שִׁמְרֹנִי | Shimroni | Shimronite | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 38, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן10
- שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן5
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙5
- שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹן3
- שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹן2
- שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן2
- שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹן2
- שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹן2
- שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃2
- לְשִׁמְשׁ֗וֹן1
- לְשִׁמְשׁ֖וֹן1
- לְשִׁמְשׁ֜וֹן1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)35HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npm
Judges
thirty-eight uses
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
- שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
- שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
- שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
- שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
- שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
- שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
- שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
“Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
- לְשִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןleshimshonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Samson
But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
- שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן֮shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.
- שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: O Samson
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.
- שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: O Samson
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.
- שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: O Samson
Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
- שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: O Samson
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֥וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.
- לְשִׁמְשׁ֖וֹןleshimshonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Samson
- לְשִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןleshimshonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Samson
Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
- שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃shimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”
- שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,
- שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
- שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹןshimshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Samson
The letters
Gematria 696· 1,346 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.