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
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto 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 told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed [him] in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill 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 Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put [them] upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that [is] before Hebron.
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 afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.
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 lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us 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 Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
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 Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
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
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, 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
Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So 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 Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest 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 unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and 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
Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from 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 Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
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 she fastened [it] with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
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 she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth].
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, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto 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
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I [have been] a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man.
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 when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
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 she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went 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 she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist 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)*)
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
22 and to profane/begin: begin hair head his to/for to spring like/as as which to shave
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he 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
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
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 when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
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 it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they 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 Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean 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
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
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 Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of 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 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of 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 Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which 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
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
