Strong's #8123: Shimshown (pronounced shim-shone')

from 8121; sunlight; Shimshon, an Israelite:--Samson.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁׁ

shimshôn

Samson = "like the sun"

1) a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H8121

Usage:

This word is used 38 times:

 

Judges 13:24: "and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed"
Judges 14:1: " And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters"
Judges 14:3: "a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father,"
Judges 14:5: " Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards"
Judges 14:7: "And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well."
Judges 14:10: "went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for"
Judges 14:12: " And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare"
Judges 14:15: "on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband,"
Judges 14:16: " And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest"
Judges 14:20: " But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend."
Judges 15:1: "within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife"
Judges 15:3: " And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I"
Judges 15:4: " And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands,"
Judges 15:6: "hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken"
Judges 15:7: " And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged"
Judges 15:10: "us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done"
Judges 15:11: "the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that"
Judges 15:12: "thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall"
Judges 15:16: " And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass"
Judges 16:1: "Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in"
Judges 16:2: "And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all"
Judges 16:3: " And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight,"
Judges 16:6: "And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great"
Judges 16:7: " And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes"
Judges 16:9: "unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he broke the withes, as"
Judges 16:10: "And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told"
Judges 16:12: "unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he broke"
Judges 16:13: "And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told"
Judges 16:14: "unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away"
Judges 16:20: "And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said,"
Judges 16:23: "Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."
Judges 16:25: "were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house;"
Judges 16:25: "for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport:"
Judges 16:26: " And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel"
Judges 16:27: "men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport."
Judges 16:28: " And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember"
Judges 16:29: " And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which"
Judges 16:30: " And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might;"