Manoah

Samson's father, before Israel's Monarchy · named in 14 verses

the name means rest Strong's Lexicon

Manoah, Samson's father from the tribe of Dan, was visited by the Angel of the Lord who announced Samson's birth.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Rest, a Danite, the father of Samson (Judg. 13:1-22, and 14:2-4).

Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.

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Children Samson

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First named at Judges 13:2.

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Verses that name Manoah

Judges 13:2 Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
Judges 13:8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
Judges 13:9 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God returned to the woman as she was sitting in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.
Judges 13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
Judges 13:12 Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”
Judges 13:13 So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.
Judges 13:15 “Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”
Judges 13:16 And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
Judges 13:17 Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”
Judges 13:19 Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.
Judges 13:20 When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
Judges 13:21 And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.
Judges 13:22 “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
Judges 16:31 Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.