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šimšōn שִׁמְשׁוֹן ‘Samson’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from šemeš שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ ‘sun’
Roots: שׁמשׁ

šimšōn pr n m pers
Samson = "like the sun"
1) a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years

Mentioned in Judges 14:3, 14:5, 14:10, 14:15, 14:16, 15:1, 15:6, 16:7, 16:28, 16:2, 15:4, 16:29, 16:3, 15:7, 16:23, 15:10, 15:11, 15:16, 16:27, 16:1, 16:6, 16:9, 16:10, 16:12, 16:13, 16:14, 16:26, 14:12, 15:3, 15:12, 16:20, 16:25, 16:30, 13:24, 14:1, 14:7, 14:20

2014 — 2024 Institute for Biblical Content. Biblical Hebrew for linguists: a multilingual analytical biblical Hebrew lexicon.
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