Judges 14:1
Strong's Lexicon
One day Samson
שִׁמְשׁ֖וֹן (šim·šō·wn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8123: Samson = 'like the sun' 1) a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years

went down
וַיֵּ֥רֶד (way·yê·reḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3381: 1) to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go or come down 1a2) to sink 1a3) to be prostrated 1a4) to come down (of revelation) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to bring down 1b2) to send down 1b3) to take down 1b4) to lay prostrate 1b5) to let down 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought down 1c2) to be taken down

to Timnah,
תִּמְנָ֑תָה (tim·nā·ṯāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8553: Timnath or Timnah or Thimnathah = 'portion' 1) a town on the northern boundary of Judah later assigned to Dan 2) a town in the hill country of Judah

where he saw
וַיַּ֥רְא (way·yar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: 1) to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to see 1a2) to see, perceive 1a3) to see, have vision 1a4) to look at, see, regard, look after, see after, learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out 1a5) to see, observe, consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish 1a6) to look at, gaze at 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to appear, present oneself 1b2) to be seen 1b3) to be visible 1c) (Pual) to be seen 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cause to see, show 1d2) to cause to look intently at, behold, cause to gaze at 1e) (Hophal) 1e1) to be caused to see, be shown 1e2) to be exhibited to 1f) (Hithpael) to look at each other, face

אִשָּׁ֛ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

a young Philistine
פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃ (pə·liš·tîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6430: Philistine = 'immigrants' 1) an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan

woman
מִבְּנ֥וֹת (mib·bə·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1323: n f 1) daughter 1a) daughter, girl, adopted daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, granddaughters, female child, cousin 1a1) as polite address n pr f 1a2) as designation of women of a particular place 2) young women, women 1a3) as personification 1a4) daughter-villages 1a5) description of character

בְּתִמְנָ֖תָה (bə·ṯim·nā·ṯāh)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8553: Timnath or Timnah or Thimnathah = 'portion' 1) a town on the northern boundary of Judah later assigned to Dan 2) a town in the hill country of Judah

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.

Young's Literal Translation
And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Samson went down to Timnah and saw a young Philistine woman there .

New American Standard Bible
Then Samson went down to Timnah and saw a woman in Timnah, [one] of the daughters of the Philistines.

King James Bible
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.

New Living Translation
One day when Samson was in Timnah, one of the Philistine women caught his eye.

English Standard Version
Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.

New American Standard Bible
Then Samson went down to Timnah and saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.

King James Bible
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Samson went down to Timnah and saw a young Philistine woman there.

International Standard Version
A while later, Samson went down to Timnah and observed a woman in Timnah who was of Philistine origin.

NET Bible
Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye.

American Standard Version
And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

English Revised Version
And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

Young's Literal Translation
And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,
















Cross References
Genesis 38:13
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

Joshua 15:10
And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 14:2
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

Judges 1:1
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

Judges 13:24
And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

Judges 13:23
But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

Judges 14:3
Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

Judges 14:4
But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
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