Judges 14:7
in Judges 14Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
KJV
And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
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This verse in Judges 14
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
and talked with the woman
on Judges 14:7-9
Numbers 6:6 keeps a Nazarite from coming at any dead body, and 6:7 holds the ban even for his father and his mother. Samson turns aside to the carcase, takes the honey out of it in his hands, eats as he walks, and gives the rest to his parents without telling them where it came from. That silence is the second in four verses, since verse 6 also ends on what he kept from them, and the two silences together are what make the riddle possible. Adam Clarke reads the interval of verse 8 as about a year, the usual space between betrothal and wedding, by which time the flesh would be gone and the dry bones left for the bees.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Many of the fathers have spoken a great deal about this lion, beloved brothers, and all of them have said what is fitting and in accord with the facts. Some have said that the lion prefigured Christ our Lord. Truly, this is very appropriate, for …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And he went down, and talked with the woman,....
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
a young lion--Hebrew, a lion in the pride of his youthful prime. The wild mountain passes of Judah were the lairs of savage beasts; and most or all the "lions" of Scripture occur in that wild country.
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A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
he went down, and talked with the woman--The social intercourse between the youth of different sexes is extremely rare and limited in the East, and generally so after they are betrothed.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase
And talked with the woman - That is, concerning marriage; thus forming the espousals.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּ֖רֶד | vaiyered | and he went down | H3381 → | 381 times |
| וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר | vaydaber | and he spoke | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| לָאִשָּׁ֑ה | laishah | to the woman | H802 → | 781 times |
| וַתִּישַׁ֖ר | vatishar | and she was pleasing | H3474 → | |
| בְּעֵינֵ֥י | beeinei | in [the] eyes of | H5869 → | 887 times |
| שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃ | shimshon | Samson | H8123 → | 38 times |
וַיֵּ֖רֶדand he went down
vaiyeredH3381 →381 times
וַיְדַבֵּ֣רand he spoke
vaydaberH1696 →1141 times
לָאִשָּׁ֑הto the woman
laishahH802 →781 times
וַתִּישַׁ֖רand she was pleasing
vatisharH3474 →
בְּעֵינֵ֥יin [the] eyes of
beeineiH5869 →887 times
שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן׃Samson
shimshonH8123 →38 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Caesarius of Arles, SERMON 119.1; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).