Delilah Learns the Secret
Judges 16:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
- KJV
- And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;vexed: Heb. shortened
- WEB
- When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
- ASV
- And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.
- LSV
- And it comes to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and urges him, and his soul is grieved to death,
- YLT
- And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,
- DBY
- And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death;
- DRC
- And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even until death.
- GNV
- And because shee was importunate vpon him with her wordes continually, and vexed him, his soule was pained vnto the death.
- JPS
- And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.
- LXXE
- And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַ֠יְהִי כִּֽי־הֵצִ֨יקָה לּ֧וֹ בִדְבָרֶ֛יהָ כָּל־הַיָּמִ֖ים וַתְּאַֽלֲצֵ֑הוּ וַתִּקְצַ֥ר נַפְשׁ֖וֹ לָמֽוּת׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε ἐξέθλιψεν αὐτὸν ἐν λόγοις αὐτῆς πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας, καὶ ἐστενοχώρησεν αὐτὸν, καὶ ὠλιγοψύχησεν ἕως τοῦ ἀποθανεῖν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 7:21–23With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him. He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap, until an arrow pierces his liver, like…
- Luke 18:5yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
- Luke 11:8I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
- Jonah 4:9Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
- Mark 14:24He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
- Job 21:4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
- Proverbs 7:26–27For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
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