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Judges 16:12

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So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them off his arms like a thread.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Behold, thou hast mocked me

on Judges 16:10-12

New ropes that never were occupied is exactly what the men of Judah used at 15:13, where they bound him with two new cords, and 15:14 says the cords became as flax that was burnt with fire. He is handing Delilah the record of his own deliverances as a game. The liers in wait are in the chamber for this attempt as for the first, so the third answer is given with armed men in the room and the second trap already sprung.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

With ropes. Thick rope. 1 Unlike the thin string specified in v.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Judges 16:11:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַתִּקַּ֣חand she took

    vatikachH3947 →966 times

  • דְּלִילָה֩Delilah

    delilahH1807 →6 times

  • עֲבֹתִ֨יםropes

    ʾavotimH5688 →24 times

  • חֲדָשִׁ֜יםnew

    chadashimH2319 →53 times

  • וַתַּאַסְרֵ֣הוּand she bound him

    vataasrehuH631 →72 times

  • בָהֶ֗םwith <the> them

    vahem

  • וַתֹּ֤אמֶרand she said

    vatomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלָיו֙to him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • פְּלִשְׁתִּ֤ים[the] Philistines

    pelishtimH6430 →287 times

  • עָלֶ֙יךָ֙[are] on you

    ʾaleikhaH5921 →5755 times

  • שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןO Samson

    shimshonH8123 →38 times

  • וְהָאֹרֵ֖בand the ambusher

    vehaorevH693 →41 times

  • יֹשֵׁ֣ב[was] sitting

    yoshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בֶּחָ֑דֶרin the chamber

    bechaderH2315 →38 times

  • וַֽיְנַתְּקֵ֛םand he tore apart them

    vaynatekemH5423 →27 times

  • מֵעַ֥לfrom on

    mealH5921 →5755 times

  • זְרֹעֹתָ֖יוarms his

    zerootavH2220 →

  • כַּחֽוּט׃like <the> thread

    kachutH2339 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

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About Judges

Samson and Delilah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Samson and Delilah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament.

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