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Definitions of samson in various dictionaries:
noun - (Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah
noun - a large and strong and heavyset man
A man of great physical strength.
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Sep 8 1999 New York Times |
Feb 12 1999 Irish Times (Simplex) |
Apr 11 1998 Irish Times (Simplex) |
Nov 18 1997 Irish Times (Simplex) |
Aug 25 1997 Irish Times (Simplex) |
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In Judges he said, "With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" |
The 7 locks of his head were shaved "and his strength went from him" |
The Philistines made sport of him "and they set him between the pillars" |
He ripped the doors off the gate of the city of Gaza & carried them on his back to the top of a hill |
In the book of Judges, this strongman is tempted & tamed by Delilah |
This strongman's last prayer was that God give him the strength to collapse the temple of his Philistine captors |
Blinded after losing his strength, he was put to work in the prison in Gaza |
In Judges 16 the Philistines have a wild party (their last) to mock this hero |
This strongman was killed destroying a Philistine temple & was interred in his father's burying place |
In separate works, Rembrandt painted this man "Threatening His Father-In-Law" & and also portrayed his "Blinding" |
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Samson (; , Shimshon, "man of the sun") was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last of the leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy. He is sometimes considered to be an Israelite version of the popular Near Eastern folk hero also embodied by the Sumerian Enkidu and the Greek Heracles. * The biblical account states that Samson was a Nazirite, and that he was given immense strength to aid him against his enemies and allow him to perform superhuman feats, including slaying a lion with his bare hands and massacring an entire army of Philistines using only the jawbone of a donkey. However, if Samson's long hair was cut, then his Nazirite vow would be violated and he would lose his strength.Samson was betrayed by his lover Delilah, who ordered a servant to cut his hair while he was sleeping and turned him over to his Philistine enemies, who gouged out his eyes and forc |