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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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| "There hath not come a razor upon mine head, for I have been a Nazarite unto God," he told Delilah |
| In a biblical opera, this shorn strongman really brings down the house; his audience was just crushed |
| Delilah gave him a real trimming |
| He revealed, "If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me" |
| Before killing 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, he set 300 foxes' tails afire; does PETA know about this? |
| The 14th chapter of Judges reports that he killed a lion with his bare hands |
| Milton had him bemoaning, "O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!" |
| Handel wrote a 1743 oratorio about this Biblical guy who got a famous haircut |
| At the end of his life, this man prayed for the strength to avenge himself on the Philistines |
| Remarkably, using only the jawbone of an ass, he slew 1,000 men in the Old Testament |
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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 |