H0559–אָמַר–a.mar

The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.

וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ (יֹּ֣אמְרוּ) i.Yo.me.ru “they said”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (יֹּ֕אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”אָמֹ֤ר 'a.Mor “certainly <to think>”אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ 'a.Mar.ti “I thought”

Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (יֹּאמְר֣וּ) i.yo.me.Ru “they said”וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ (יֹּאמְר֗וּ) i.yo.me.Ru “they said”

Samson said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

The men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? They said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙) i.yo.me.Ru “they said”וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ (יֹּאמְר֗וּ) i.yo.me.Ru “they said”

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (יֹּאמְר֣וּ) i.yo.me.Ru “they said”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.

וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ (יֹּ֤אמְרוּ) i.Yo.me.ru “they said”וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ (יֹּ֧אמְרוּ) i.Yo.me.ru “they said”לֵאמֹ֗ר (אמֹ֗ר) Mor “saying”

Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

וַיֹּאמַ֔ר (יֹּאמַ֔ר) i.yo.Mar “he said”

[supplied: It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [supplied: Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

לֵאמֹ֗ר (אמֹ֗ר) Mor “saying”לֵאמֹ֔ר (אמֹ֔ר) Mor “saying”

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 of us eleven hundred [supplied: pieces] of silver.

וַיֹּ֨אמְרוּ (יֹּ֨אמְרוּ) i.Yo.me.ru “they said”

Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (תֹּ֤אמֶר) To.mer “she said”

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.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (תֹּ֣אמֶר) To.mer “she said”

Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (תֹּ֤אמֶר) To.mer “she said”

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.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (תֹּ֤אמֶר) To.mer “she said”

Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.

וַתֹּ֨אמֶר (תֹּ֨אמֶר) To.mer “she said”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

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 web.

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (תֹּ֣אמֶר) To.mer “she said”

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 in which your great strength lies.

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (תֹּ֣אמֶר) To.mer “she said”תֹּאמַ֣ר to.Mar “will you say”

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."

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

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.

לֵאמֹר֙ (אמֹר֙) Mor “saying”