Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
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Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh cords that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
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Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.
So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
And the princes of the Philistims brought her seuen greene cordes that were not dry, and she bound him therewith.
And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such is he spoke of, with which she bound him;
And the princes of the Philistines bring up to her seven green withs which have not been dried, and she bindeth him with them.
And the princes of the Philistines bring up to her seven green cords which have not been dried, and she binds him with them.
Then the rulers of the Philistines brought up to Delilah seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied Samson up with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh cords that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought to her seven green withs, which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
The Philistine leaders brought her seven supple bowstrings that hadn't dried out, and she tied him up with them.
So the chiefs of the Philistines gave her seven new bow-cords which had never been made dry, and she had them tightly knotted round him.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לַחִ֖ים moist H3892 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לַחִ֖ים moist H3892 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיַּעֲלוּ לָ֞הּ סַרְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים שִׁבְעָ֛ה יְתָרִ֥ים לַחִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא חֹרָ֑בוּ וַתַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ בָּהֶֽם
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀναφέρω αὐτός ὁ ἄρχων ὁ ἀλλόφυλος ἑπτά νευρά ὑγρός μή διαφθείρω καί δέω αὐτός ἐν αὐτός
And the princes of the Philistines brought to her seven moist cords that had not been spoiled, and she bound him with them.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְאַסִיקוּ לָהּ טוּרְנֵי פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי שַׁבְעָא יְתָרִין רְטִיבִין דְלָא יַבִּישׁוּ וַאֲסַרְתֵּיהּ בְּהוֹן:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is lach (“moist”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 16:8 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.