The Meaning of Judges 14:7 Explained

Judges 14:7

KJV: And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

YLT: And he goeth down and speaketh to the woman, and she is right in the eyes of Samson;

Darby: Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

ASV: And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And he went down,  and talked  with the woman;  and she pleased  Samson  well. 

What does Judges 14:7 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 14:7 mean?

And he went down and talked with the woman and she pleased well eye Samson
וַיֵּ֖רֶד וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר לָאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתִּישַׁ֖ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן

וַיֵּ֖רֶד  And  he  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.
וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר  and  talked 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
לָאִשָּׁ֑ה  with  the  woman 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
וַתִּישַׁ֖ר  and  she  pleased  well 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: יָשַׁר 
Sense: to be right, be straight, be level, be upright, be just, be lawful, be smooth.
בְּעֵינֵ֥י  eye 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, cdc
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.
שִׁמְשֽׁוֹן  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.

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