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Samson’s Revenge

Judges 15:8

In 11 translations

BSB
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.Literally he struck them hip and thigh
KJV
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
WEB
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
ASV
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
LSV
And he strikes them hip and thigh [with] a great striking, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
YLT
And he smiteth them hip and thigh — a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.
DBY
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.
DRC
And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.
GNV
So hee smote them hippe and thigh with a mightie plague: then hee went and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.
JPS
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
LXXE
And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּ֨ךְ אוֹתָ֥ם שׁ֛וֹק עַל־יָרֵ֖ךְ מַכָּ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַיֵּ֣רֶד וַיֵּ֔שֶׁב בִּסְעִ֖יף סֶ֥לַע עֵיטָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτοὺς κνήμην ἐπὶ μηρὸν πληγὴν μεγάλην· καὶ κατέβη καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἐν τρυμαλιᾷ τῆς πέτρας Ἠτάμ.

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  • Isaiah 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
  • Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
  • Isaiah 63:6I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

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