Judges 16:6

16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” ¹ 

Judges 16:13

16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair ²  into the fabric on the loom ³  and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Judges 16:16

16:16 She nagged him ⁴  every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”

² tn Heb “head” (also in the following verse). By metonymy the head is mentioned in the Hebrew text in place of the hair on it.

³ tn Heb “with the web.” For a discussion of how Delilah did this, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 381, and G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 353-54.

⁴ tn Heb “forced him with her words.”

⁵ tn Heb “and his spirit was short [i.e., impatient] to the point of death.”