16And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.


In Context

13 And Deli'lah said to Samson, |Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound.| And he said to her, |If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.|

14 So while he slept, Deli'lah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin, and said to him, |The Philistines are upon you, Samson!| But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.

15 And she said to him, |How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies.|

16 And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

17 And he told her all his mind, and said to her, |A razor has never come upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.|

18 When Deli'lah saw that he had told her all his mind, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, |Come up this once, for he has told me all his mind.| Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hands.

Judges 16:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:16With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto death;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:16And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:16And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:16It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:16And 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;