Judges 15:2
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
And her father saide, I verily thought that thou haddest vtterly hated her, therfore I gaue her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer then she? †take her, I pray thee, in stead of her.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. let her be thine.
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- Judges 14:20Rank 1 from verse 2
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14And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
14And shee put her widowes garments off from her, and couered her with a vaile, and wrapped her selfe, and sate in †an open place, which is by the way to Timnath: for shee sawe that Shelah was growen, and she was not giuen vnto him to wife.
- Judges 14:16Rank 3 from verse 2
16And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
16And Samsons wife wept before him, and said, Thou doest but hate me, and louest me not: thou hast put foorth a riddle vnto the children of my people, and hast not tolde it me. And hee said vnto her, Behold, I haue not tolde it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
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Judges 15:2
Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.
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Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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Truly, certainly, assuredly, actually, or in truth.
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Sense 1: Past tense and past participle of think: considered, supposed, intended, purposed, judged, reckoned, or called to mind. Sense 2: A thought, intention, purpose, judgment, or matter of the mind or heart. Sense 3: In the phrase ‘take thought,’ anxious care or concern.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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Had; possessed, held, received, or experienced.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of hate, meaning to feel strong dislike, aversion, or enmity toward; in comparisons, to love less.
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1. Bestowed, delivered, or granted. 2. Caused or appointed.
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One who accompanies, associates, or shares a condition, work, covenant, or fellowship with another; a fellow, mate, or partner.
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Not so old as another; less advanced in age.
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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.
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Sense 1: To ask, beseech, request, or entreat. Sense 2: To make requests or supplications to God, or address him in worship.
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In the place or room of another.
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1BUT it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
1¶ But it came to passe within a while after, in the time of wheat haruest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid, and he said, I will goe in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to goe in.
2And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
2And her father saide, I verily thought that thou haddest vtterly hated her, therfore I gaue her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer then she? †take her, I pray thee, in stead of her.
Selected passage3¶ And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
3¶ And Samson said concerning them, ‖Now shal I be more blamelesse then the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.