H9001–/וַ–v

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

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 urged him: 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 to 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 to 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 upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments to them who expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

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 used as 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 concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a fire-brand in the midst between 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 brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

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

Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had 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 to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I 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 top of the rock Etam.

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

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

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

And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, 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 to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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

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

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

And they spoke to 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 cords, and brought him up from the rock.

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

And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his the hands.

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

And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.

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

And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain 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 jaw-bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi.

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

And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die by 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 a hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drank, his spirit came again, and he revived. Wherefore he called the name of it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to 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”