Judges 16:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
In context
4 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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.”
6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
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.”
8 So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.
Judges 16:6 in every translation
- BSB 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.”
- KJV King James 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
- ASV 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.
- YLT 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.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- Then Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what is thy great strength, and with what thou mightest be bound to overpower thee.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.