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Samsonשִׁמְשׁוֹןwentוַיֵּלֶךְto Gaza,עַזָּתָהand sawוַיַּרְאthereשָׁםa woman,אִשָּׁהa prostitute,זוֹנָהand he went inוַיָּבֹאto her.אֵלֶיהָ
Judges 16:1
Study it in the app“Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a woman, a prostitute, and he went in to her.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 16:1, word by word
- Samsonשִׁמְשׁוֹןshimshon
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” appears- wentיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- to Gazaעַזָּתָazata
Gaza
See it on the mapWhere else “azata” appears- and sawיַּרְאyar
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “yar” appears- a womanאִשָּׁהisha
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appears- a prostituteזוֹנָהzona
prostitute oneself
To give one's body to others outside marriage, often for pay; the woman who does so.
Where else “zona” appears- and he went inיָּבֹאyavo
go in to
To go in to a woman as husband.
Where else “yavo” appears
Places in this verse
Gaza
Today: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
A Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast, at the far southwest of Israel.
There the Philistines blinded Samson and made him grind grain (Judg 16:21); he died there pulling down the temple (Judg 16:30).
The context
1 · This verse (above)
2It was told to the Gazites, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and kept quiet all night, saying, “Until the light of morning; then we will kill him.”