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Judg. 16:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And she said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, The Philistines
Plishtiy (Hebrew #6430)
a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth
KJV usage: Philistine.
Pronounce: pel-ish-tee'
Origin: patrial from 6429
be upon thee, Samson
Shimshown (Hebrew #8123)
sunlight; Shimshon, an Israelite
KJV usage: Samson.
Pronounce: shim-shone'
Origin: from 8121
. And he awoke
yaqats (Hebrew #3364)
to awake (intransitive)
KJV usage: (be) awake(-d).
Pronounce: yaw-kats'
Origin: a primitive root
out of his sleep
shehah (Hebrew #8142)
from 3462; sleep
KJV usage: sleep.
Pronounce: shay-naw'
Origin: or shena (Psa. 127:2) {shay-naw'}
, and said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Ib will go out
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
as at other times before
pa`am (Hebrew #6471)
amah {pah-am-aw'}; from 6470; a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
KJV usage: anvil, corner, foot(-step), going, (hundred-)fold, X now, (this) + once, order, rank, step, + thrice, ((often-)), second, this, two) time(-s), twice, wheel.
Pronounce: pah'-am
Origin: or (feminine) pa
, and shake
na`ar (Hebrew #5287)
to tumble about
KJV usage: shake (off, out, self), overthrow, toss up and down.
Pronounce: naw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root (probably identical with 5286, through the idea of the rustling of mane, which usually accompanies the lion's roar)
myself. And he wist
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
not that the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
was departed
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
from him.
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Hos. 7:9• 9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on him, and he knoweth it not. (Hos. 7:9)
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Num. 14:42‑43• 42{i}Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;{/i}
 43{i}for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away from Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.{/i} (Num. 14:42‑43)
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1 Sam. 28:15• 15{i}And Samuel said to Saul{/i}, Why hath thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams; therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. (1 Sam. 28:15)

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Philistines,
Samson,
To Wit; Wot, Wist

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I will go.
Judg. 16:3,9,14• 3And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
 9{i}Now she had liers in wait abiding in the chamber; and she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he broke the cords, as a thread of tow is broken when it touches the fire; and his strength was not known.{/i}
 14{i}And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and tore out the pin of the beam, and the web.{/i} (Judg. 16:3,9,14)
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Deut. 32:30• 30{i}How could one chase a thousand,{HR}And two put ten thousand to flight,{HR}Were it not that their Rock had sold them,{HR}And Jehovah had delivered them up?{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:30)
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Isa. 42:24• 24Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah?—he against whom we have sinned; and they would not walk in his ways, nor be obedient unto his law. (Isa. 42:24)
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Hos. 7:9• 9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on him, and he knoweth it not. (Hos. 7:9)
the Lord.
Num. 14:9,42‑43• 9Only rebel not ye against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not.
 42{i}Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies;{/i}
 43{i}for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away from Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.{/i} (Num. 14:9,42‑43)
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Josh. 7:12• 12Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed. {i}I will no more be with you, except ye destroy the accursed thing from your midst.{/i} (Josh. 7:12)
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1 Sam. 16:14• 14But the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him. (1 Sam. 16:14)
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1 Sam. 18:12• 12And Saul was afraid of David, because Jehovah was with him, and was departed from Saul. (1 Sam. 18:12)
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1 Sam. 28:14‑16• 14And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
 15{i}And Samuel said to Saul{/i}, Why hath thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams; therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
 16Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? (1 Sam. 28:14‑16)
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2 Chron. 15:2• 2{i}And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin{/i}: Jehovah is with you while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. (2 Chron. 15:2)
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Isa. 59:1‑2• 1Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear;
 2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he doth not hear. (Isa. 59:1‑2)
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Jer. 9:23‑24• 23{i}Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches:{/i}
 24{i}but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah{/i}. (Jer. 9:23‑24)
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Matt. 17:16,20• 16{i}And I brought him to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.{/i}
 20{i}And he says to them, Because of your unbelief; for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard [seed], ye shall say to this mountain, Be transported hence there, and it shall transport itself; and nothing shall be impossible to you.{/i} (Matt. 17:16,20)
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2 Cor. 3:5• 5not that we are competent from ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God, (2 Cor. 3:5)
• When his secret was divulged, {v.19} the mark of his dependence removed, the bond of communion between his soul and God abolished, what remained for him? {v.20} All his strength had vanished. The past experiences of God's deliverances, in spite of his moral bondage, only served to deceive him and to lull him into security. Three times he had extricated himself at a critical moment. Why not a fourth? (“Samson: Victories: Judges 15” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and thought, I will go out as at other times before, and disengage myself. And he knew not that Jehovah had departed from him.

W. Kelly Translation

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And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and thought, I will go out as at other times before, and disengage myself. And he knew not that Jehovah had departed from him.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)