6And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.


In Context

3 And 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 on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give you every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.

7 And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green thongs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green thongs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Judges 16:6 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:6So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength [lieth,] and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6And Deli'lah said to Samson, |Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6Delilah said to Samson, |Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6And Delilah saith unto Samson, 'Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power is, and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.'