King James Version
Judges 14:7 in the King James Version says “And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well .” — study this verse from Judges chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well .”
Judges 14:7 · KJV
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. against: Heb. in meeting him
And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well .
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And he went down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
“and talked”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“and she pleased”
H3474to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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