Study it in the app“And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned them tail to tail and put one torch between the two tails, in the middle.”
And Samsonוַ שִׁמְשׁוֹןwentיֵּלֶךְand caughtוַיִּלְכֹּדthreeשְׁלֹשׁhundredמֵאוֹתfoxes,שׁוּעָלִיםand tookוַיִּקַּחtorches,לַפִּדִיםand turned themוַיֶּפֶןtailזָנָבtoאֶלtailזָנָבand putוַיָּשֶׂםoneאֶחָדtorchלַפִּידbetweenבֵּיןthe twoשְׁנֵי הַtails,זְּנָבוֹתin the middle.בַּתָּוֶךְ
Samson
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” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appearscapture
To conquer a city or seize someone.
Where else “yilkod” appearsthree
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “shelosh” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appearsfox, jackal
Fox; the Hebrew word can also name the jackal, a similar animal that goes about in packs.
Where else “shualim” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikach” appearstorch, flame
Torch, flame; also lightning.
Where else “lapidim” appearsturn
To turn toward something, someone or God.
Where else “yefen” appearstail
An animal's hindmost part, or the lowest place.
Where else “zanav” appearsput
To put something somewhere.
Where else “yasem” appearsone
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “echad” appearsboth
The two together, both of them.
Where else “shene” appearsmidst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “tavech” appears3And Samson said to them, “This time I am innocent toward the Philistines, when I do them harm.”
4 · This verse (above)
5He set fire to the torches and let them loose into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned up from the stacked grain to the standing grain and to the olive groves.
