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.|


In Context

3 But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.

4 After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Deli'lah.

5 And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, |Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to subdue him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.|

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

7 And Samson said to her, |If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.|

8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings 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 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:6And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.