Samson
![Samson's Fight with the Lion by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1525](/Images/godic/202502/09/Lucas_Cranach_d._Ä._-_Samson's_Fight_with_the_Lion_-_WGA057170201.jpg")
![Rembrandt's painting of Samson and Delilah](/Images/godic/202502/09/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_1260202.jpg")
![Samson in the Treadmill, by Carl Heinrich Bloch](/Images/godic/202502/09/Samson_hos_filistrene0202.jpg")
![Delilah cuts Samson's hair, by Master E. S., 1460/1465](/Images/godic/202502/09/Delila_schert_Simson_die_Haare0202.jpg")
Samson (/ˈsæmsən/; Hebrew: שִׁמְשׁוֹן, Modern Shimshon, Tiberian Šimšôn, meaning "man of the sun"), Shamshoun (Arabic:شمشون Shamshūn/Šamšūn), or Sampson (Greek:Σαμψών), is one of the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16).