Although an assailant may overpower one person, two can withstand him. Moreover, a three-stranded cord is not quickly broken.

Your lips are like a scarlet thread; your mouth is lovely. Your forehead behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, ‘It is I who made Abram rich.’

So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

Each of the pillars was about 27 feet high, about 18 feet in circumference, three inches thick, and hollow.

When we invade the land, tie this red rope in the window through which you let us down, and gather together in your house your father, mother, brothers, and all who live in your father’s house.

He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.