shimshon · Samson

What it means

shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Samson”.

Son of Manoah, a Nazirite from birth and judge of Israel for twenty years. The name comes from the word for "sun."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges 13:24

  And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the boy grew, and YHWH blessed him.

• Judges 14:1

  Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines.

• Judges 14:3

  But his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife from the Philistines, the uncircumcised?” And Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

• Judges 14:5

  Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and look, a young lion came roaring to meet him.

• Judges 14:7

  Then he went down and spoke to the woman, and she was right in the eyes of Samson.

• Judges 14:10

  His father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, for so the young men used to do.

• Judges 14:12

  And Samson said to them, “Let me propose to you, please, a riddle. If you do explain it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.

• Judges 14:15

  And it happened on the seventh day that they said to the wife of Samson, “Seduce your husband so that he explains to us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to dispossess us? Is it not so?”

• Judges 14:16

  So the wife of Samson wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. The riddle you have proposed to the sons of my people, but to me you have not explained it.” And he said to her, “Look, to my father and to my mother I have not explained it, and to you should I explain it?”

• Judges 14:20

  And the wife of Samson became the wife of his companion, who had been a companion to him.

• Judges 15:1

  And it happened after some days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to my wife in the room.” But her father did not let him go in.

• Judges 15:3

  And Samson said to them, “This time I am innocent toward the Philistines, when I do them harm.”

• Judges 15:4

  And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned them tail to tail and put one torch between the two tails, in the middle.

• Judges 15:6

  And the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

• Judges 15:7

  And Samson said to them, “If you act like this, surely I will take vengeance on you, and after that I will cease.”

• Judges 15:10

  And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they said, “To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he did to us.”

• Judges 15:11

  Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the crag of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

• Judges 15:12

  And they said to him, “To bind you we have come down, to give you into the hand of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me.”

• Judges 15:16

  And Samson said, “With the jawbone of the donkey, a heap, two heaps; with the jawbone of the donkey I have struck a thousand men.”

• Judges 16:1

  Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a woman, a prostitute, and he went in to her.

• Judges 16:2

  It was told to the Gazites, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and kept quiet all night, saying, “Until the light of morning; then we will kill him.”

• Judges 16:3

  And Samson lay until midnight; then at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and of the two doorposts, and pulled them up with the bar, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.

• Judges 16:6

  So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me, please, in what your great strength lies, and with what you could be bound to afflict you.”

• Judges 16:7

  And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any human being.”

• Judges 16:9

  Now the ambush was waiting for her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a strand of tow snaps when it smells fire. So his strength was not known.

• Judges 16:10

  And Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you have deceived me and told me lies. Now tell me, please, with what you could be bound.”

• Judges 16:12

  So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the ambush was waiting in the room. But he snapped them from off his arms like a thread.

• Judges 16:13

  And Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me with what you could be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the warp…”

• Judges 16:14

  And she fastened it with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the loom and the warp.

• Judges 16:20

  And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that YHWH had left him.

• Judges 16:23

  Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given into our hand Samson our enemy.”

• Judges 16:25

  And it happened, when their heart was merry, that they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson from the house of the prisoners, and he made them laugh in their presence; and they stood him between the pillars.

• Judges 16:26

  And Samson said to the boy who was holding him by his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, so that I may lean on them.”

• Judges 16:27

  Now the house was full of men and women, and there were all the lords of the Philistines; and on the roof were about three thousand men and women who were watching Samson entertain them.

• Judges 16:28

  And Samson called to YHWH and said, “Adonai YHWH, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this time, O Elohim, that I may take one vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

• Judges 16:29

  And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he braced himself against them, one with his right hand and one with his left.

• Judges 16:30

  And Samson said, “Let my soul die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with force, and the house fell on the lords and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he put to death at his death were more than those he had put to death in his life.

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