The Meaning of Judges 13:15 Explained

Judges 13:15

KJV: And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

YLT: And Manoah saith unto the messenger of Jehovah, 'Let us detain thee, we pray thee, and prepare before thee a kid of the goats.'

Darby: Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, "Pray, let us detain you, and prepare a kid for you."

ASV: And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Manoah  said  unto the angel  of the LORD,  I pray thee, let us detain  thee, until we shall have made ready  a kid  for  thee. 

What does Judges 13:15 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 13:15-25 - The Promise Fulfilled
Manoah's wife comforted her husband with admirable tact. How often her words come back to us, at the different stages of life! The fact that God continues to bless and use, to answer prayer and give revelations of Himself, may be quoted as a reason for believing that He has not cast us off. Would He have showed us such things as these and then kill us? His love in time past forbids us to think so.
Samson means sunny. A happy, laughing lad, with his profuse crown of unshorn hair-is it any wonder that the soldiers of the garrison, situated on the Dan-frontier, welcomed him? And the Spirit of God began to play on his young soul, as a minstrel plays on his harp. Such is the literal rendering of "began to move." Oh, happy are they whose natures lie open to God's touch, so that the least movement produces a quick and glad answer! As the Aeolian harp will respond to the kiss of the zephyr or the moan of the rising storm, so be it with our hearts and lives. Thus our unconscious influence may become as songs without words. [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 13

1  Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines
2  An angel appears to Manoah's wife
8  The angel appears to Manoah
15  Manoah's sacrifices, whereby the angel is discovered
24  Samson is born

What do the individual words in Judges 13:15 mean?

And said Manoah to the Angel of Yahweh let us detain please You and we will prepare for You a young goat a young goat
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מָנ֖וֹחַ אֶל־ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֑ה נַעְצְרָה־ נָּ֣א אוֹתָ֔ךְ וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥ה לְפָנֶ֖יךָ גְּדִ֥י עִזִּֽים

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר  And  said 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
מָנ֖וֹחַ  Manoah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: מָנׄוחַ  
Sense: a Danite, father of the judge Samson and inhabitant of Zorah.
מַלְאַ֣ךְ  the  Angel 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: מַלְאָךְ  
Sense: messenger, representative.
יְהוָ֑ה  of  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
נַעְצְרָה־  let  us  detain 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common plural
Root: עָצַר  
Sense: to restrain, retain, close up, shut, withhold, refrain, stay, detain.
נָּ֣א  please 
Parse: Interjection
Root: נָא  
Sense: I (we) pray, now, please.
וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥ה  and  we  will  prepare 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual, first person common plural
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
לְפָנֶ֖יךָ  for  You 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, common plural construct, second person masculine singular
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
גְּדִ֥י  a  young  goat 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: גְּדִי  
Sense: kid, young male goat.
עִזִּֽים  a  young  goat 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: עֵז  
Sense: female goat, she-goat, goat, kid.

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