Study it in the app“But 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.””
But his fatherאָבִיוand his motherוְאִמּוֹsaidוַיֹּאמֶרto him,לוֹ“Is there noהַאֵיןwomanאִשָּׁהamong the daughtersבִּבְנוֹתof your brothers,אַחֶיךָorוּamong allבְכָלmy people,עַמִּיthatכִּיyouאַתָּהgoהוֹלֵךְto takeלָקַחַתa wifeאִשָּׁהfrom the Philistines,מִפְּלִשְׁתִּיםthe uncircumcised?”הָעֲרֵלִיםAnd Samsonוַ שִׁמְשׁוֹןsaidיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלhis father,אָבִיו“Takeקַחherאוֹתָהּfor me,לִיforכִּיsheהִיאis rightיָשְׁרָהin my eyes.”בְעֵינָי
father
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” appearsdaughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “venot” appearscountryman
Someone of the same people, or a friend.
Where else “ache” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “ami” appearsgo
To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
Where else “holech” appearstake a wife
"Take a wife": to marry.
Where else “kachat” 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” appearsuncircumcised
A man without the covenant sign; said with scorn.
Where else “arelim” appearsSamson
Samson, son of Manoah, a Nazirite from birth and judge of Israel for twenty years. The name comes from the word for "sun."
Where else “shimshon” appearsseem right
To seem good to someone.
Where else “yashra” appearssight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ena” appears“She is right in my eyes” means “she seems good to me,” “she pleases me.” They are the same words the book uses to describe that time: “each did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6; 21:25).
2He 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.”
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4His father and his mother did not know that it was from YHWH, for he was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.
