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 16:19

16:19 She made him go to sleep on her lap ²  and then called a man in to shave off ³  the seven braids of his hair. ⁴  She made him vulnerable ⁵  and his strength left him.

Judges 20:5

20:5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. ⁶  They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

[16:6]  ¹ tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”

[16:19]  ² tn Heb “on her knees.” The expression is probably euphemistic for sexual intercourse. See HALOT 160-61 s.v. בֶּרֶךְ.

[16:19]  ³ tn Heb “she called for a man and she shaved off.” The point seems to be that Delilah acted through the instrumentality of the man. See J. A. Soggin, Judges (OTL), 254.

[16:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “head.” By metonymy the hair of his head is meant.

[16:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “She began to humiliate him.” Rather than referring to some specific insulting action on Delilah’s part after Samson’s hair was shaved off, this statement probably means that she, through the devious actions just described, began the process of Samson’s humiliation which culminates in the following verses.

[20:5]  ³ tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”