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
Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, 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
The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will 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
Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain 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
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
The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you 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
Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
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
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become 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 cords 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 she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches 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
Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might 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
He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become 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
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. 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*)
Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
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
She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.
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
She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
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
When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled 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
He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will 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
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 has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the 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
She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved 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
She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had 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)*)
The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
22 and to profane/begin: begin hair head his to/for to spring like/as as which to shave
However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
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
The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has 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
When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”
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
When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. 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 to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on 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 on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
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
Samson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, 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
Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the 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
Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed 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 brothers 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 burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
