H9001–/וַ–v

Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?

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

She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened 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”

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

The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [ergänzt: of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. 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 [ergänzt: given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

וַתְּהִ֖י (וַ) va. “and”

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.

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

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

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand 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”

When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

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

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

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived 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 encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

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

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 (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, "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.

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

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

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

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on 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”

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

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

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

It happened, 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”

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.

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

But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name of it was called 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”

He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֧ט (וַ) va “and”