Samson (first name)
Samson , also Simson , is a male given name .
Origin and meaning
The name comes from the biblical person Samson , son of Manoach, from the Book of Judges , verses 13,24-16,28. The older form is Schims [ch] on too Hebrew שמשון Samson, Samsonmeaning 'from the sun'; also “Servant of God”, or diminutive “Little Sun” or “Sönnchen”. The name is etymologically a typical theophore .
name day
- June 27th Samson
- July 28th, Samson of Dol
variants
- German Samson, Simson - the first form is of Greek origin and passed down through the Septuagint , the second is distributed in German Bible versions.
- Arabic شمشون
- English Samson
- french Samson
- Italian Sansone
- Dutch Simson
- Portuguese Sansão
- russian Самсон Samson
- spanish Sansón
Well-known namesake
A name
- Samson or Samson, son of Manoach, biblical person
- Samson (heroic saga) , grandfather of Thidreks af Berne (Dietrich von Bern) in the Thidreks saga
- Samson von Dol (c. 490-565), Celtic bishop, saint
First name
- Samson Breuer (1891–1974), German-born Israeli mathematician
- Samson Cerfberr de Medelsheim (1778–1826), French adventurer and writer
- Samson Eitrem (1872–1966), Norwegian classical philologist
- Samson Flexor (1907–1971), French-Brazilian painter
- Samson Gunzenhauser (1830-1893), German rabbi
- Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), German rabbi and writer
- Samson Hochfeld (1871–1921), German rabbi and scholar
- Samson Kisekka (1912–1999), Ugandan Prime Minister
- Samson Kitur (1966-2003), Kenyan runner
- Samson Mason (1793–1869), American politician
- Samson Occom (1723–1792), Native American clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Mohegan tribesman
- Samson Pollen (1931–2018), American pin-up artist
- Samson Rothschild (1848–1939), German Jewish teacher and historian
- Samson Schmitt (* 1979), French jazz guitarist
- Samson Tschanba (1886–1937), Abkhazian-Soviet writer, playwright and politician
- Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724), Austrian court factor and chief rabbi
Fictional characters
- a bear in Sesame Street (NDR)
- a guinea pig in the animated series Camp Lazlo
- a mouse in the animated series Chip and Chap - The Knights of Law
literature
- Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Samson . In: Duden - The great first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Bibliographer. Institut AG, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 (also Duden - Lexicon of first names. 5th edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-04945-5 .).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Scherer: Simson. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (eds.): The scientific biblical dictionary on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff., Accessed on February 1, 2013.