who was known as israel in the bible
Israel (name) Israel is a Biblical given name. The patriarch Jacob was given the name Israel (Hebrew
Samson Samson (/ˈsæmsən/; שִׁמְשׁוֹן‬, Shimshon, "man of the sun")[1][a] was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last of the leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy. He is sometimes considered to be an Israelite version of the popular Near Eastern folk hero also embodied by the Sumerian Enkidu and the Greek Heracles.