Study it in the app“He came up and told his father and his mother, and said, “A woman I have seen in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines; now take her for me as a wife.””
He came upוַיַּעַלand toldוַיַּגֵּדhis fatherלְאָבִיוand his mother,וּלְאִמּוֹand said,וַיֹּאמֶר“A womanאִשָּׁהI have seenרָאִיתִיin Timnah,בְתִמְנָתָהof the daughtersמִבְּנוֹתof the Philistines;פְּלִשְׁתִּיםnowוְעַתָּהtakeקְחוּherאוֹתָהּfor meלִּיas a wife.”לְאִשָּׁה
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “yaal” appearstell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “yaged” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearsmother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “im” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearswoman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appearsTimnah
Timnah, the name of two towns, one in the hill country of Judah.
Where else “timnata” appearsdaughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “benot” appearsPhilistines
Philistines: a people that settled on the south-west coast of Canaan and was Israel's enemy in the days of the judges and of David.
Where else “pelishtim” appearstake a wife
"Take a wife": to marry.
Where else “kechu” appears1Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines.
2 · This verse (above)
3But his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife from the Philistines, the uncircumcised?” And Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
