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


In Context

13 Delilah said to Samson, |Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.| He said to her, |If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.|

14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, |The Philistines are on you, Samson!| He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

15 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 have not told me where your great strength lies.|

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

17 He told her all his heart, and said to her, |No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.|

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

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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