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# שִׁמְשׁוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8123

**Samson** — used 38 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Samson [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8123/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמְשׁוֹן: n.pr.m. Samson [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8123/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Samson (Assyrian n.pr. Šamšânu, HilprMurâshu 27, 70; on שמש in Arabic n.pr. trib. cf. NöZMG xi (1886), 166);—Σαμψων: Ju 13:24; 14:1, 3 + 35 times Ju 14, 15, 16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Samson (30); O Samson (4); of Samson (4).

## In the verses

[Judges 14:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.20/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֖י אֵ֣שֶׁת שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן לְמֵ֣רֵעֵ֔הוּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר רֵעָ֖ה לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and she.belonged the.wife of.Samson to his.close friend who he.was.a.special.friend to him

*JPS 1917:* But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had had for his friend.

[Judges 14:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.7/#tree)

וַיֵּ֖רֶד וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר לָאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתִּישַׁ֖ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.down and he.spoke to the woman and she.was.pleasing in the.eyes of.Samson

*JPS 1917:* And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8123.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8123/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).