H9023–הוּ–hu

Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

בֵּיתוֹ֒ (וֹ֒) o “his”בִתּוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”

And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.

בְּגָדָ֗יו (ו) v “his”

And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,

נִדְר֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

לְבָנָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

וּשְׁמ֣וֹ (וֹ) o “his”וְאִשְׁתּ֥וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

רֹאשׁ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then the woman came in, and said to her husband, A man came to me, and his form was like the form of a god, causing great fear; I put no question to him about where he came from, and he did not give me his name;

וּמַרְאֵ֕הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”שְׁמ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

מוֹתֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

And Manoah got up and went after his wife, and came up to the man and said to him, Are you the man who was talking to this woman? And he said, I am.

אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?

וּמַעֲשֵֽׂהוּ׃ (הוּ) hu “his”

So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.

וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on; and they went down on their faces to the earth.

וְאִשְׁתּוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”

But the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then it was clear to Manoah that he was the angel of the Lord.

אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen.

אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.

שְׁמ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.

לְאָבִ֣יו (ו) v “his”וּלְאִמּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for

אָבִ֣יו (ו) v “his”וְאִמּ֗וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אָבִיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”

Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.

וְאָבִ֨יו (ו) v “his”וְאִמּ֜וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

וְאָבִ֥יו (ו) v “his”וְאִמּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)

בְּיָד֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”לְאָבִ֣יו (ו) v “his”וּלְאִמּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

כַּפָּ֗יו (ו) v “his”אָבִ֣יו (ו) v “his”אִמּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.

אָבִ֖יהוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

And the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and, attacking thirty men there, took their clothing from them, and gave it to the men who had given the answer to his hard question. Then, full of wrath, he went back to his fa

אַפּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אָבִֽיהוּ׃ (הוּ) hu “his”

But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.

לְמֵ֣רֵעֵ֔הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”