Judges 16:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven locks of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And she made him to slepe vpon hir lappe, & called one which shoue of the seue hayrie lockes of his heade. And she beganne to vexe him. The was his strength departed fro him.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And she made him sleepe vpon her knees, and she called a man, and made him to shaue off the seuen lockes of his head, and shee began to vexe him, and his strength was gone from him.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And she made hym sleepe vpon her knees, and she sent for a man, and he dyd shaue of the seuen lockes of his head, & began to vexe him, and his strength was gone from him.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    She made him go to sleep on her lap and then called a man in to shave off the seven braids of his hair. She made him vulnerable and his strength left him.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:26-27 : 26 For she has cast down many wounded; indeed, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 23:33-34 : 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.
  • Prov 7:21-23 : 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she prevailed over him. 22 He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 16:3-18
    16 verses
    85%

    3But Samson lay there until midnight, and at midnight he arose, and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

    4It came to pass after this, that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

    5And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said, "Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, so that we may bind him and afflict him. Every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."

    6So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you can be bound to afflict you."

    7And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have never been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

    8So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh cords, which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

    9Now men were lying in wait, staying with her in the room. And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he broke the cords as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

    10Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please tell me how you can be bound."

    11So he said to her, "If they bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

    12Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And men were lying in wait in the room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread.

    13Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web."

    14So she fastened it with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the pin of the loom and the web.

    15Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me where your great strength lies."

    16And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, that his soul was vexed to death,

    17that he told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

    18When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart." So the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

  • Judg 16:20-23
    4 verses
    83%

    20She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" So he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

    21Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze chains, and he became a grinder in the prison.

    22However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.

    23Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."

  • Judg 14:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband to tell us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?

    16And Samson's wife wept before him and said, You only hate me, and love me not. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and have not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it to my father or my mother, and shall I tell you?

    17And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted. And it came to pass on the seventh day that he told her, because she pressed him greatly. And she told the riddle to the children of her people.

  • Judg 14:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat, and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

    7And he went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

  • Judg 14:19
    70%

    19And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and killed thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of garments to those who explained the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

  • Judg 13:24
    70%

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

  • Judg 15:11-17
    7 verses
    70%

    11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us? He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

    12They said to him, We have come down to bind you, so we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.

    13They said to him, No; but we will bind you tightly 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.

    14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes on his arms became like flax burned with fire, and his bonds loosed from his hands.

    15He found a new jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

    16Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey have I killed a thousand men.

    17When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.

  • Judg 14:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

    2And he came up and told his father and mother, saying, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore, get her for me as a wife.

    3Then his father and mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me well.

  • Judg 15:1
    70%

    1After a while, during the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, I will go in to my wife in the chamber. But her father would not allow him to enter.

  • Judg 16:27-30
    4 verses
    69%

    27Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there—about three thousand men and women on the roof, watching while Samson performed.

    28Then Samson called to the LORD, saying, "O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes."

    29And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left.

    30Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.

  • Judg 13:5
    69%

    5For, behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

  • Judg 16:1
    68%

    1Then Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and he went in to her.

  • Judg 15:6
    67%

    6Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

  • Judg 15:3
    67%

    3Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be blameless toward the Philistines, though I cause them harm.

  • Judg 15:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

    9The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

  • 2 Sam 13:14
    67%

    14However, he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

  • Judg 16:25
    67%

    25So it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may perform for us." So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them, and they stationed him between the pillars.