Samson in rabbinic literature x. 13), was a member of that clan (comp. I Chronicles iv. 3). The name "Samson" is derived from "shemesh" ("sun"), so that Samson bore the name of God, who is also "a sun and shield" (Psalm lxxxiv. 12 [A. V. 11]); and as God protected Israel, so did Samson watch over it in his generation, judging the people even as did God. Samson's strength was divinely derived (Sotah 10a); and he further resembled God in requiring neither aid nor help (Genesis Rabba xcviii. 18). In the blessings which Jacob pronounced on the tribe of Dan (Genesis xlix. 16-17) he
Samson (bishop of Worcester) died on 5 May 1112. Samson (bishop of Worcester) Samson (died 5 May 1112) was a medieval English clergyman who was Bishop of Worcester from 1096 to 1112. Samson was a Royal Chaplain and a canon and Treasurer of the diocese of Bayeux. In the "Domesday Book" Samson is referred to as the chaplain and is recorded as holding St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton and considerable properties in southern Staffordshire, most of which he sublet to either the canons of St. Peter's or to other clergy. In 1096 Samson was elected Bishop of Worcester; he was ordained as a deacon