< Judges 16 >
1 and to go: went Samson Gaza [to] and to see: see there woman to fornicate and to come (in): marry to(wards) her
And Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
2 to/for Gaza to/for to say to come (in): come Samson here/thus and to turn: surround and to ambush to/for him all [the] night in/on/with gate [the] city and be quiet all [the] night to/for to say till light [the] morning and to kill him
And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Sampson is come hither: and they compassed him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and they were quiet all the night, saying, Let us wait till the dawn appear, and we will slay him.
3 and to lie down: sleep Samson till half [the] night and to arise: rise in/on/with half [the] night and to grasp in/on/with door gate [the] city and in/on/with two [the] doorpost and to set out them with [the] bar and to set: put upon shoulder his and to ascend: establish them to(wards) head: top [the] mountain: mount which upon face: before Hebron
And Sampson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Chebron, and laid them there.
4 and to be after so and to love: lover woman in/on/with (Sorek) Valley (Valley of) Sorek and name her Delilah
And it came to pass after this that he loved a woman in Alsorech, and her name [was] Dalida.
5 and to ascend: rise to(wards) her lord Philistine and to say to/for her to entice [obj] him and to see: see in/on/with what? strength his great: large and in/on/with what? be able to/for him and to bind him to/for to afflict him and we to give: give to/for you man: anyone thousand and hundred silver: money
And the princess of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see wherein his great strength [is], and wherewith we shall prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give thee each eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
6 and to say Delilah to(wards) Samson to tell [emph?] please to/for me in/on/with what? strength your great: large and in/on/with what? to bind to/for to afflict you
And Dalida said to Sampson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein [is] thy great strength, and wherewith thou shalt be bound that thou mayest be humbled.
7 and to say to(wards) her Samson if to bind me in/on/with seven cord fresh which not to dry and be weak: weak and to be like/as one [the] man
And Sampson said to her, If they bind me with seven moist cords that have not been spoiled, then shall I be weak and be as one of ordinary men.
8 and to ascend: establish to/for her lord Philistine seven cord fresh which not to dry and to bind him in/on/with them
And the princess of the Philistines brought to her seven moist cords that had not been spoiled, and she bound him with them.
9 and [the] to ambush to dwell to/for her in/on/with chamber and to say to(wards) him Philistine upon you Samson and to tear [obj] [the] cord like/as as which to tear cord [the] tow in/on/with to smell he fire and not to know strength his
And the liers in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, the Philistines [are] upon thee, Sampson: and he broke the cords as if any one should break a thread of tow when it has touched the fire, and his strength was not known.
10 and to say Delilah to(wards) Samson behold to deceive in/on/with me and to speak: speak to(wards) me lie now to tell [emph?] please to/for me in/on/with what? to bind
And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast cheated me, and told me lies; now then tell me wherewith thou shalt be bound.
11 and to say to(wards) her if to bind to bind me in/on/with cord new which not to make: do in/on/with them work and be weak: weak and to be like/as one [the] man
And he said to her, If they should bind me fast with new ropes with which work has not been done, then shall I be weak, and shall be as another man.
12 and to take: take Delilah cord new and to bind him in/on/with them and to say to(wards) him Philistine upon you Samson and [the] to ambush to dwell in/on/with chamber and to tear them from upon arm his like/as thread
And Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the liers in wait came out of the chamber, and she said, The Philistines [are] upon thee, Sampson: and he broke them off his arms like a thread.
13 and to say Delilah to(wards) Samson till here/thus to deceive in/on/with me and to speak: speak to(wards) me lie to tell [emph?] to/for me in/on/with what? to bind and to say to(wards) her if to weave [obj] seven lock head my with [the] weave (and to blow in/on/with peg to(wards) [the] wall and be weak: weak and to be like/as one [the] man *X*)
And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I intreat thee, wherewith thou mayest be bound: and he said to her, If thou shouldest weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and shouldest fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.
14 (and to sleep him and to weave [obj] seven lock head his with [the] weave *X*) and to blow in/on/with peg and to say to(wards) him Philistine upon you Samson and to awake from sleep his and to set out [obj] [the] peg [the] shuttle and [obj] [the] weave
And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines [are] upon thee, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
15 and to say to(wards) him how? to say to love: lover you and heart your nothing with me this three beat to deceive in/on/with me and not to tell to/for me in/on/with what? strength your great: large
And Dalida said to Sampson, How sayest thou, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? this third time thou hast deceived me, and hast not told me wherein [is] thy great strength.
16 and to be for to press to/for him in/on/with word her all [the] day: daily and to urge him and be short soul his to/for to die
And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.
17 and to tell to/for her [obj] all heart his and to say to/for her razor not to ascend: rise upon head my for Nazirite God I from belly: womb mother my if to shave and to turn aside: depart from me strength my and be weak: weak and to be like/as all [the] man
Then he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, because I have been a holy [one] of God from my mother's womb; if then I should be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I shall be weak, and I shall be as all [other] men.
18 and to see: see (Delilah *LA(bh)*) for to tell to/for her [obj] all heart his and to send: depart and to call: call to to/for lord Philistine to/for to say to ascend: rise [the] beat for to tell (to/for me *Q(K)*) [obj] all heart his and to ascend: rise to(wards) her lord Philistine and to ascend: establish [the] silver: money in/on/with hand their
And Dalida saw that he told her all his heart, and she sent and called the princess of the Philistines, saying, Come up yet this once; for he has told me all his heart. And the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and brought the money in their hands.
19 and to sleep him upon knee her and to call: call to to/for man and to shave [obj] seven lock head his and to profane/begin: begin to/for to afflict him and to turn aside: depart strength his from upon him
And Dalida made Sampson sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and she began to humble him, and his strength departed from him.
20 and to say Philistine upon you Samson and to awake from sleep his and to say to come out: come like/as beat in/on/with beat and to shake and he/she/it not to know for LORD to turn aside: depart from upon him
And Dalida said, The Philistines [are] upon thee, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.
21 and to grasp him Philistine and to dig [obj] eye his and to go down [obj] him Gaza [to] and to bind him in/on/with bronze and to be to grind in/on/with house: home ([the] to bind *Q(K)*)
And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house.
22 and to profane/begin: begin hair head his to/for to spring like/as as which to shave
And the hair of his head began to grow as before it was shaven.
23 and lord Philistine to gather to/for to sacrifice sacrifice great: large to/for Dagon God their and to/for joy and to say to give: give God our in/on/with hand: power our [obj] Samson enemy our
And the chiefs of the Philistines met to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to make merry; and they said, God has given into our hand our enemy Sampson.
24 and to see: see [obj] him [the] people and to boast: praise [obj] God their for to say to give: give God our in/on/with hand: power our [obj] enemy our and [obj] to destroy land: country/planet our and which to multiply [obj] slain: killed our
And the people saw him, and sang praises to their god; for our god, [said they], has delivered into our hand our enemy, who wasted our land, and who multiplied our slain.
25 and to be (for like/as be pleasing *Q(K)*) heart their and to say to call: call to to/for Samson and to laugh to/for us and to call: call to to/for Samson from house: home ([the] to bind *Q(K)*) and to laugh to/for face: before their and to stand: stand [obj] him between [the] pillar
And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Sampson out of the prison-house, and let him play before us: and they called Sampson out of the prison-house, and he played before them; and they smote him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars.
26 and to say Samson to(wards) [the] youth [the] to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand his to rest [emph?] [obj] me (and to feel me *Q(K)*) [obj] [the] pillar which [the] house: home to establish: establish upon them and to lean upon them
And Sampson said to the young man that held his hand, Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house [rests], and I will stay myself upon them.
27 and [the] house: home to fill [the] human and [the] woman and there [to] all lord Philistine and upon [the] roof like/as three thousand man and woman [the] to see: see in/on/with to laugh Samson
And the house [was] full of men and woman, and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof [were] about three thousand men and woman looking at the sports of Sampson.
28 and to call: call to Samson to(wards) LORD and to say Lord YHWH/God to remember me please and to strengthen: strengthen me please surely [the] beat [the] this [the] God and to avenge vengeance one from two eye my from Philistine
And Sampson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my lord, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes.
29 and to twist Samson [obj] two pillar [the] midst which [the] house: home to establish: establish upon them and to support upon them one in/on/with right his and one in/on/with left his
And Sampson took hold of the two pillars of the house on which the house stood, and leaned on them, and laid hold of one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
30 and to say Samson to die soul: myself my with Philistine and to stretch in/on/with strength and to fall: fall [the] house: home upon [the] lord and upon all [the] people which in/on/with him and to be [the] to die which to die in/on/with death his many from whence to die in/on/with life his
And Sampson said, Let my wife perish with the Philistines: and he bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it: and the dead whom Sampson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life.
31 and to go down brother: male-sibling his and all house: household father his and to lift: raise [obj] him and to ascend: establish and to bury [obj] him between Zorah and between Eshtaol in/on/with grave Manoah father his and he/she/it to judge [obj] Israel twenty year
And his brethren and his father's house went down, and they took him; and they went up and buried him between Saraa and Esthaol in the sepulchre of his father Manoe; and he judged Israel twenty years.