Samson
son of Manoah (JDG 13:24), who killed a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey (JDG 15:15)
PersonTribe of Danmale37 verses
Names
- Samson — שִׁמְשׁוֹן shiməshon “little one of Shemesh or strong” (H8123) · Σαμψων Sampsōn (G4546) — Judges 13:24
Dated events
- Beginning of Samson's time as judge of Israel* — 2,886 AH · 1,137 BC (Ussher) — Judges 12:13
- End of Samson's time as judge of Israel* — 2,906 AH · 1,117 BC (Ussher) — Judges 12:14
Years are anno hominis, counted from Creation. The two chronologies are given as the source gives them, unreconciled.
Named together
Appearances
- Judges 13:24
- Judges 14:1
- Judges 14:3
- Judges 14:5
- Judges 14:7
- Judges 14:10
- Judges 14:12
- Judges 14:15
- Judges 14:16
- Judges 14:20
- Judges 15:1
- Judges 15:3
and 25 further references.
Topical references
- A judge (leader, hero) of Israel — Judges 16:31
- A Danite, son of Manoah; miraculous birth of; a Nazarite from his mother' s womb; the mother forbidden to drink wine or strong drink, or to eat any ceremonially unclean thing during gestation — Judges 13:2; Judges 13:24; Judges 13:25
- Desires a Philistine woman for his wife; kills a lion — Judges 14:1
- His marriage feast and the riddle propounded — Judges 14:8
- Kills thirty Philistines — Judges 14:19
- Wife of, estranged — Judges 14:20; Judges 15:1; Judges 15:2
- Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife — Judges 15:3
- His great strength — Judges 15:7; Hebrews 11:32
- Kills one-thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey — Judges 15:13
- Miraculously supplied with water — Judges 15:18; Judges 15:19
- Cohabits with Delilah, a prostitute; her machinations with the Philistines to overcome him — Judges 16:1
- Is blinded by the Philistines and confined to hard labor in prison; pulls down the pillars of the temple, meets his death, and kills a multitude of his enemies — Judges 16:21; Hebrews 11:32
Outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897); the sub-headings are Nave's own.