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Strong's H8123 שִׁמְשׁוֹן (shimshon)

Shimshon means “Samson” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H8123
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 37
Books 1

Strong's H8123 Quick Answer

Strong's H8123 שִׁמשׁוֹן (Shimshown) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Shimshown (shim-shone') n/p. 1. sunlight 2. Shimshon, an Israelite It has 37 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include samson and samson's. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Shimshown (shim-shone') n/p. 1. sunlight 2. Shimshon, an Israelite
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
1 indexed book
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
samson and samson's

Meaning and Definition

Shimshown (shim-shone') n/p. 1. sunlight 2. Shimshon, an Israelite [from H8121] KJV: Samson. Root(s): H8121

Original Word
שִׁמשׁוֹן
Transliteration
Shimshown
Derivation
Root: שׁמשׁ First root strongs: 8121
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8123. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Samson

Usage: A Judge living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.13.24; son of: Manoah (H4495); married to Delilah (H1807) Also named: Sampsōn (Σαμψών "Samson" G4546) § Samson = "like the sun" a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years

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How Strong's H8123 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Shimshown, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Samson Judges 13:24 34× Samson's Judges 14:15

How Strong's H8123 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 37 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8123 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H8123 in the Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Judges 13:24 KJV

And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

Judges 14:1 KJV

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

Judges 14:3 KJV

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8123.

Judges 13:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Judges 14:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges 14:3 Old Testament, KJV
Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges 14:5 Old Testament, KJV
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
Judges 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
Judges 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Judges 14:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
Judges 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
Judges 14:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
Judges 14:20 Old Testament, KJV
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
Judges 15:1 Old Testament, KJV
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
Judges 15:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
Judges 15:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
Judges 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges 15:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Judges 15:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
Judges 15:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
Judges 15:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto him, We are come down to bind 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 upon me yourselves.
Judges 15:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Judges 16:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Judges 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
Judges 16:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Judges 16:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Judges 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
Judges 16:9 Old Testament, KJV
Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
Judges 16:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
Judges 16:12 Old Testament, KJV
Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
Judges 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
Judges 16:14 Old Testament, KJV
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
Judges 16:20 Old Testament, KJV
And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Judges 16:23 Old Testament, KJV
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Judges 16:25 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
Judges 16:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
Judges 16:27 Old Testament, KJV
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
Judges 16:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Judges 16:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
Judges 16:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8123, grouped by book.

Judges 37 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H8123 FAQ

What does shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן) mean?

Shimshon (Strong's H8123) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Samson". Shimshown (shim-shone') n/p. 1. sunlight 2. Shimshon, an Israelite

How many times is shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's H8123 across 1 book.

Where can I study shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8123 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as samson and samson's. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.