H9001–/וַ–v

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said: 'Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not; thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and wilt thou not tell it me?' And he said unto her: 'Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother,

וַתֵּבְךְּ֩ (וַ) va. “and”וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va. “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

וַתֵּ֤בְךְּ (וַ) va. “and”וַיְהִ֣י׀ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּגֶּד־ (וַ) va “and”וַתַּגֵּ֥ד (וַ) va. “and”

And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and smote thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of raiment unto them that declared the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his fath

וַתִּצְלַ֨ח (וַ) va. “and”וַיֵּ֨רֶד (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּח֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתֵּן֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֣חַר (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֖עַל (וַ) va “and”

But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had had for his friend.

וַתְּהִ֖י (וַ) va. “and”

But it came to pass 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 would not suffer him to go in.

וַיְהִ֨י (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְקֹ֨ד (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And her father said: 'I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.'

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וָאֶתְּנֶ֖נָּה (וָ) va. “and”

And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּ֤פֶן (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֨שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

And when he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing corn, and also the oliveyards.

וַיַּבְעֶר־ (וַ) va “and”וַיְשַׁלַּ֖ח (וַ) va “and”וַיַּבְעֵ֛ר (וַ) va “and”

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

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּתְּנָ֖הּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּעֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

וַיַּ֨ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֣רֶד (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֔שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”

Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi.

וַיַּעֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the men of Judah said: 'Why are ye come up against us?' And they said: 'To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.'

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ (וַ) va “and”

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson: 'Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us?' And he said unto them: 'As they did unto me, so ha

וַיֵּרְד֡וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And they said unto him: 'We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson said unto them: 'Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.'

וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And they spoke unto him, saying: 'No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but surely we will not kill thee.' And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ (וַ) va “and”וּנְתַנּ֣וּךָ (וּ) u. “and”וַיַּאַסְרֻ֗הוּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּהוּ (וַֽ) va “and”

When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

וַתִּצְלַ֨ח (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּהְיֶ֨ינָה (וַ) va. “and”וַיִּמַּ֥סּוּ (וַ) va “and”

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

וַיִּמְצָ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקָּחֶ֔הָ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּךְ־ (וַ) va “and”

And Samson said: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּשְׁלֵ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָ֛א (וַ) va “and”

And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said: 'Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of Thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?'

וַיִּצְמָא֮ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָ֤א (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמַ֔ר (וַ) va “and”וְנָפַלְתִּ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

But God cleaved the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came back, and he revived; wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

וַיִּבְקַ֨ע (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּצְא֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֔שְׁתְּ (וַ) va “and”וַתָּ֥שָׁב (וַ) va. “and”וַיֶּ֑חִי (וַ) va “and”

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֧ט (וַ) va “and”