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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #8123 - שִׁמְשׁוֹן

Transliteration

Shimshôwn

Phonetics

shim-shone'

Origin

from (H8121)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Samson = “like the sun”

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

KJV (38)

NAS (38)

HCS (38)

BSB (38)

ESV (38)

WEB (38)

Verse Results

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

שִׁמְשׁוֹן (“solar,” “like the sun”), Samson, pr.n. of a judge of Israel, celebrated for his great strength, Judges 13:24, seqq. LXX. Σαμψών, which Josephus (Antiqu. v. 10 ) explains ἰσχυρός, contrary to the etymology (see Gesch. der Heb. Spr. page 81, 82).

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List of Word Forms

לְשִׁמְשׁ֖וֹן לְשִׁמְשׁ֗וֹן לְשִׁמְשׁ֜וֹן לשמשון שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃ שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹן שִׁמְשׁ֗וֹן שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹן שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹן שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן שִׁמְשׁ֥וֹן שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙ שִׁמְשׁוֹן֮ שמשון שמשון׃ lə·šim·šō·wn leshimShon ləšimšōwn shimShon šim·šō·wn šimšōwn

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