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Judges 16:8

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So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

KJV

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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This verse in Judges 16

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

wherein thy great strength lieth

on Judges 16:6-9

Four attempts run to one shape: she asks, he answers, men wait in the chamber, and she cries that the Philistines are upon him. Seven runs through the chapter and lands on his head at the end, seven withs here and seven locks at verses 13 and 19. His answers move inward by stages, from green withs to new ropes to the hair woven into a loom and at last to the hair itself, so the fourth answer is reached by three steps he took himself.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיַּעֲלוּ־and they brought up

    vaiyaalu-H5927 →890 times

  • לָ֞הּto <the> her

    lah

  • סַרְנֵ֣י[the] rulers of

    sarneiH5633 →22 times

  • פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים[the] Philistines

    felishtimH6430 →287 times

  • שִׁבְעָ֛הseven

    shivahH7651 →394 times

  • יְתָרִ֥יםcords

    yetarimH3499 →102 times

  • לַחִ֖יםfresh

    lachimH3892 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • חֹרָ֑בוּthey had been dried

    choravuH2717 →40 times

  • וַתַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּand she bound him

    vataasrehuH631 →72 times

  • בָּהֶֽם׃with <the> them

    bahem

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ecclesiastes 7:26

    And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is…

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 22:14

      The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

    • Proverbs 5:3–5

      Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

    • Proverbs 2:16

      It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

    • Ecclesiastes 2:26

      To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…

    • Proverbs 2:18–19

      For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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