Word

שִׁמְשׁוֹן

Shimshôwn · H8123 · Hebrew · proper noun · 38 occurrences

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Person

Samsonfirst named in Judges 13:2438 verses

Meanings

Samson

Samson, son of Manoah, a judge of Israel

Examples
Judges 13:24 So the woman gave birth to a son, and named him Samson; and the child grew up and the LORD blessed him.
Judges 14:1 Then Samson went down to Timnah, and he saw a woman in Timnah, one 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 relatives, or among all our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” Yet Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she is right for me.”

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

חָתָןbridegroom 1
אֹיֵבenemy 1

What it doesIt is the subject

20 occurrences in 10 groups

אָמַרto say 9
Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
אָסַרto bind, to tie 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 6
לto/for 6

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 3
עַיִןeye, sight 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: This proper name identifies Samson, whose birth and naming are recounted in Judges 13:24.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8123. Shimshon שִׁמְשׁוֺן38 proper name, masculine Samson (Assyrian proper name Šamšânu,…

H8123. Shimshon
שִׁמְשׁוֺן38 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: Jdg 13:24; Jdg 14:1, 335t. Judges 14; Judges 15; 16

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People38 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0