Study it in the app“His 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.”
His fatherוְאָבִיוand his motherוְאִמּוֹdid notלֹאknowיָדְעוּthatכִּיitהִיאwasfrom YHWH,מֵיְהוָהforכִּיheהוּאwas seekingמְבַקֵּשׁan occasionתֹאֲנָהagainst the Philistines.מִפְּלִשְׁתִּיםAt thatוּבָ הַהִיאtimeעֵתthe Philistinesפְּלִשְׁתִּיםwere rulingמֹשְׁלִיםover Israel.בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל
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” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yadu” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsseek
To go after someone or something in order to find it.
Where else “mevakesh” appearsoccasion
A pretext for a quarrel with someone.
Where else “toana” 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” appearstime
The moment at which something happens; also "at that time".
Where else “et” appearsrule
To hold sway over something or someone.
Where else “moshlim” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears3But 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.”
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5Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and look, a young lion came roaring to meet him.
