Strong's H8123: שִׁמְשׁוֹן (Shimshôwn) Definition

Judges 16:2 - And it was told the Gazites saying is come Samson hither And they compassed him in and laid wait all the night in the gate of the city and were quiet all the night saying when it is day In the morning we shall kill

Judges 16:3 - lay And Samson at 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 - said And Delilah to Samson Tell strength me I pray thee wherein thy great lieth and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict

Judges 16:7 - said And Samson unto her If they bind me with seven withs green that were never dried then shall I be weak and be as another man

Judges 16:9 - 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 And he brake as a thread of tow when it toucheth the fire was not known So his strength

Judges 16:10 - said And Delilah 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 - therefore took Delilah ropes new 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 - And he said And Delilah unto Samson Hitherto thou hast mocked me and told 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 - 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 it with the pin of the beam and with the web

Judges 16:20 - And she said The Philistines be upon thee Samson And he awoke out of his sleep And she said I will go out as at other times before as at other times before and shake myself And he wist not that the LORD was departed

Judges 16:23 - Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer sacrifice a great unto Dagon Our god and to rejoice for they said hath delivered Our god into our hand Samson our enemy

Judges 16:25 - were merry And it came to pass when their hearts that they said And they called for Samson that he may make us sport And they called for Samson house out of the prison sport and he made them and they set him between the pillars

Judges 16:26 - said And Samson 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

Judges 16:27 - 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 made sport while Samson

Judges 16:28 - called And Samson GOD and said O Lord unto the LORD remember me I pray thee and strengthen me I pray thee only this once O God avenged that I may be at once for my two eyes of the Philistines

Judges 16:29 - took hold And Samson of the two pillars middle upon which the house stood and on which it was borne up and of the other with his right hand and of the other with his left

Judges 16:30 - said And Samson Let me die with the Philistines And he bowed himself with all his might fell and the house upon the lords and upon all the people Let me die Let me die at his death were more Let me die in his life