The Meaning of Judges 14:5 Explained

Judges 14:5

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.

YLT: And Samson goeth down -- also his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they come unto the vineyards of Timnath, and lo, a lion's whelp roareth at meeting him,

Darby: Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and he came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion roared against him;

ASV: Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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. 

What does Judges 14:5 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 14:1-14 - A Self-Willed Youth
Timnath lay just across the frontier, in the Philistine country. It was a bad match and the beginning of life-trouble. Young people cannot be too careful as to their first love-match. Pray over it before you let your heart go. Take the advice of parents and friends. Whatever you do, marry only "in the Lord." For a Christian to marry one who is destitute of the divine life, is not only to set Christ's law at defiance, but to incur the misery of perpetual discord. It is impossible to have perfect fellowship with one who is not agreed with you in your deepest nature, 1 Corinthians 7:39.
This young lion, on the path between the vineyards, seems to have been the means of awakening Samson to claim that divine strength which had awaited his appeal but until that moment had been undiscovered. May it not be that lions have been allowed to roar at you, that you might be driven back upon God, and compelled to avail yourself of those infinite resources which reside in the ever-living Savior? [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 14

1  Samson desires a wife of the Philistines
6  In his journey he kills a lion
8  In a second journey he finds honey in the carcass
10  Samson's marriage feast
12  His riddle by his wife is made known
19  He strikes down thirty Philistines
20  His wife is married to another

What do the individual words in Judges 14:5 mean?

So went down Samson and with his father and mother to Timnah and came to the vineyards of Timnah and [to his] surprise a young lion [came] roaring against him
וַיֵּ֧רֶד שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹן וְאָבִ֥יו וְאִמּ֖וֹ תִּמְנָ֑תָה וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ עַד־ כַּרְמֵ֣י תִמְנָ֔תָה וְהִנֵּה֙ כְּפִ֣יר אֲרָי֔וֹת שֹׁאֵ֖ג לִקְרָאתֽוֹ

וַיֵּ֧רֶד  So  went  down 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָרַד  
Sense: to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down.
שִׁמְשׁ֛וֹן  Samson 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שִׁמְשֹׁון  
Sense: a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years.
וְאָבִ֥יו  and  with  his  father 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: אָב  
Sense: father of an individual.
וְאִמּ֖וֹ  and  mother 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: אֵם  
Sense: mother.
תִּמְנָ֑תָה  to  Timnah 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular, third person feminine singular
Root: תִּמְנָה  
Sense: a town on the northern boundary of Judah later assigned to Dan.
וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙  and  came 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
כַּרְמֵ֣י  the  vineyards 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: כֶּרֶם 
Sense: vineyard.
תִמְנָ֔תָה  of  Timnah 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular, third person feminine singular
Root: תִּמְנָה  
Sense: a town on the northern boundary of Judah later assigned to Dan.
וְהִנֵּה֙  and  [to  his]  surprise 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Interjection
Root: הִנֵּה  
Sense: behold, lo, see, if.
כְּפִ֣יר  a  young 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כְּפִיר 
Sense: young lion.
אֲרָי֔וֹת  lion 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: אֲרִי 
Sense: lion.
שֹׁאֵ֖ג  [came]  roaring 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: שָׁאַג  
Sense: (Qal) to roar.
לִקְרָאתֽוֹ  against  him 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, third person masculine singular
Root: קָרָא  
Sense: to encounter, befall, meet.

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