Judges 16:6
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New International Version (©2011)
So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me what makes you so strong and what it would take to tie you up securely."

English Standard Version (©2001)
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me, where does your great strength come from? How could someone tie you up and make you helpless?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Delilah asked Samson, "Please tell me the secret to your great strength and how you may be tied up and tortured."

NET Bible (©2006)
So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me what makes you so strong. How can you be tied up so that someone could torture you?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, where your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to afflict you.

American King James Version
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.

American Standard Version
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose.

Darby Bible Translation
And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."

English Revised Version
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength lieth, and with what thou mayest be bound to afflict thee.

World English Bible
Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."

Young's Literal Translation
And Delilah saith unto Samson, 'Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power is, and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:4-17 Samson had been more than once brought into mischief and danger by the love of women, yet he would not take warning, but is again taken in the same snare, and this third time is fatal. Licentiousness is one of the things that take away the heart. This is a deep pit into which many have fallen; but from which few have escaped, and those by a miracle of mercy, with the loss of reputation and usefulness, of almost all, except their souls. The anguish of the suffering is ten thousand times greater than all the pleasures of the sin.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Delilah said to Samson,.... At a proper opportunity, when in his hands and caresses, as Josephus relates (e), and introduced it in an artful manner, admiring his strange exploits, and wondering how he could perform them:

tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth; which she proposed seemingly out of mere curiosity, and as it would be a proof of his affection to her, to impart the secret to her:

and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee; not that she suggested to him that she was desirous to have him afflicted, or to try the experiment herself in order to afflict him, but to know by what means, if he was bound, it would be afflicting to him so that he could not relieve himself; she knew he might be bound, if he would admit of it, as he had been, but she wanted to know how he might be bound, so as to be held, and could not loose himself.

(e) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 9.)

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Samson and Delilah
4And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give you every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. 6And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you. …

Judges 16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver."
Judges 16:7 Samson answered her, "If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man."