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MANOAH

(Heb. mānôaḥ)

The father of Samson; a Danite living in the town of Zorah. Manoah and his wife are childless when an angel of the Lord appears to them, announcing that Manoah’s wife would “conceive and bear a son” (Judg. 13:3), instructs them on how he is to be brought up (vv. 4-6), and informs them that he will be a great judge and “deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines” (v. 5). Manoah finally realizes the angel’s true nature when the angel ascends “in the flame of the altar” (Judg. 13:20).

Manoah’s story contains many of the common features of Palestinian and Hellenistic wisdom stories, including the foretelling by a messenger of the gods of the birth of a son of great promise and the miraculous birth of a folk-hero to barren and childless parents (cf. 1 Sam. 1:5, 9-17; Luke 1:5-17).

Henry L. Carrigan, Jr.






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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