Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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 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 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.” Berean Standard Bible So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” King James Bible And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. New King James Version So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.” New American Standard Bible So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you can be bound to humble you.” NASB 1995 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you.” NASB 1977 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you.” Legacy Standard Bible So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you.” Amplified Bible So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies and with what you may be bound and subdued.” Christian Standard Bible 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? ” Holman Christian Standard Bible 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?” 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And Daliyala said to Samson: “Show me in what is your great power and by what you are bound and if you may be deprived” Brenton Septuagint Translation And Dalida said to Sampson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein is thy great strength, and wherewith thou shalt be bound that thou mayest be humbled. Contemporary English Version The next time Samson was at Delilah's house, she asked, "Samson, what makes you so strong? How can I tie you up so you can't get away? Come on, you can tell me." 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. 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation 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?" Good News Translation So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me what makes you so strong. If someone wanted to tie you up and make you helpless, how could he do it?" International Standard Version So Delilah asked Samson, "Please tell me the secret to your great strength and how you may be tied up and tortured." JPS Tanakh 1917 And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.' Literal Standard Version And Delilah says to Samson, “Please declare to me wherein your great power [is], and with what you are bound, to afflict you.” Majority Standard Bible So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” New American Bible So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me where you get your great strength and how you may be bound so as to be made helpless.” NET Bible So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated." New Revised Standard Version So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes your strength so great, and how you could be bound, so that one could subdue you.” New Heart English Bible Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you can be bound and subdued." 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.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Samson and Delilah…5The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.” 6So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” 7Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”… Cross References Judges 16:5 The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, "Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver." Judges 16:7 Samson told her, "If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man." Treasury of Scripture 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. Psalm 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. Proverbs 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. Jump to Previous Afflict Bands Bound Clear Delilah Deli'lah Lies Mayest Mightest Please Power Samson Secret Strength Subdue Subdued Tied Wherein WherewithJump to Next Afflict Bands Bound Clear Delilah Deli'lah Lies Mayest Mightest Please Power Samson Secret Strength Subdue Subdued Tied Wherein WherewithJudges 16 1. Samson at Gaza escapes, and carries away the gates of the city4. Delilah corrupted by the Philistines, entices Samson 6. Thrice she is deceived 15. At last she overcomes him 21. The Philistines take him, and put out his eyes 22. His strength renewing, he pulls down the house upon the Philistines and dies (6) And wherewith thou mightest be bound.--The narrative, if taken as a full account of all that took place, would leave in the mind an impression of almost incredible fatuity on the part of Samson. The general lesson is that of 1 Esdras 4:26 : "Many have gone out of their wits for women, and have become slaves on account of them; many have perished and erred and sinned by reason of women." (Comp. Proverbs 7:26.) Eastern legends constantly show how women have deceived even prophets. But there was no reason why the sacred historian should linger over the details of scenes so unworthy. If Delilah spoke thus plainly at once, we can only imagine that she was professing to treat the whole matter as a jest. Josephus says: "When Samson was drinking, or at other moments, expressing admiration of his deeds, she kept scheming how to ascertain in what way he was so pre-eminent in valour." An illustration may be found in 1 Esdras 4:29 : "I saw Apame taking the crown from the king's head and setting it on her own head; she also struck the king with her left hand, and yet for all that the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth. If she laughed upon him, he laughed; if she took displeasure at him, he flattered her, that she may be reconciled to him." The genius of a great poet has depicted such wiles in the idyll of Merlin and Vivi-enne, and it is only by supposing that such wiles were put forth in this instance that we can retain credit for even the most ordinary sense on the part of the Danite hero. But his fault was not stupidity--it was sensual infatuation; and in the ruin and shame which this sensual weakness brought upon him, and the way in which, step by step, it led him to forfeit the great gift of God, lies the chief moral of the story. We find the same lesson in the legend of Hercules and Omphale; and even if this legend was not influenced by the story of Samson's life, yet there is a general analogy between the character of the Greek and the Jewish hero. Samson was no Solomon, and yet the heart of even Solomon-- ". . . . though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell." Hebrew So Delilahדְּלִילָה֙ (də·lî·lāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 1807: Delilah -- Philistine mistress of Samson said וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (wat·tō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to Samson, שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן (šim·šō·wn) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 8123: Samson -- a deliverer of Israel “Please נָּ֣א (nā) Interjection Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then' tell me הַגִּֽידָה־ (hag·gî·ḏāh-) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous the source בַּמֶּ֖ה (bam·meh) Preposition-b | Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what of your great גָד֑וֹל (ḡā·ḏō·wl) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent strength כֹּחֲךָ֣ (kō·ḥă·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species) and how וּבַמֶּ֥ה (ū·ḇam·meh) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what you could be tied up תֵאָסֵ֖ר (ṯê·’ā·sêr) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 631: To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle and subdued.” לְעַנּוֹתֶֽךָ׃ (lə·‘an·nō·w·ṯe·ḵā) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 6031: To be bowed down or afflicted Links Judges 16:6 NIVJudges 16:6 NLT Judges 16:6 ESV Judges 16:6 NASB Judges 16:6 KJV Judges 16:6 BibleApps.com Judges 16:6 Biblia Paralela Judges 16:6 Chinese Bible Judges 16:6 French Bible Judges 16:6 Catholic Bible OT History: Judges 16:6 Delilah said to Samson Tell me Please (Jd Judg. 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