The Meaning of Judges 15:7 Explained

Judges 15:7

KJV: And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

YLT: And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

Darby: And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged upon you, and after that I will quit."

ASV: And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Samson  said  unto them, Though  ye have done  this,  yet will I be avenged  of you, and after  that I will cease. 

What does Judges 15:7 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 15:1-8 - In Bad Company
What strong confirmation is afforded, by Samson's experience, of the misery of a mixed marriage! This Philistine wife had no real love for him, and was more readily influenced by her own people than by her husband. How could she enter into his desire to emancipate Israel? To carry out his life-purpose of freeing Israel, He must break with her. Notice how this poor wife was visited with the very chastisement from which she hoped, by treachery, to save herself. Compare Judges 14:17 and Judges 15:6.
Samson's riddle is constantly being verified. We all have to encounter lions. Happy are we if we rend them in the power of the Holy Spirit! And have we not often discovered that the very sorrow, trial, or temptation which we dreaded most and which threatened to destroy us, has yielded the strength and sweetness, the meat and honey, which have enriched us for all after-time? Samson shared these with his mother and father. Let us never keep to ourselves those glorious lessons and results which we may have won in conflicts and sorrows that only the eye of God has witnessed. Let others share their benefit. [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 15

1  Samson is denied his wife
3  He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands
6  His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines
8  Samson smites them hip and thigh
9  He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines
14  He kills them with a jawbone
18  God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi

What do the individual words in Judges 15:7 mean?

And said to them Samson Since you would do a thing like this yet surely I will take revenge on you and after [that] I will cease
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן אִֽם־ תַּעֲשׂ֖וּן כָּזֹ֑את כִּ֛י אִם־ נִקַּ֥מְתִּי בָכֶ֖ם וְאַחַ֥ר אֶחְדָּֽל

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר  And  said 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
לָהֶם֙  to  them 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן  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.
אִֽם־  Since 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: אִם  
Sense: if.
תַּעֲשׂ֖וּן  you  would  do  a  thing 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine plural, Paragogic nun
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
כָּזֹ֑את  like  this 
Parse: Preposition-k, Pronoun, feminine singular
Root: זׄאת  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, such.
כִּ֛י  yet 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
אִם־  surely 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: אִם  
Sense: if.
נִקַּ֥מְתִּי  I  will  take  revenge 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, first person common singular
Root: נָקַם  
Sense: to avenge, take vengeance, revenge, avenge oneself, be avenged, be punished.
בָכֶ֖ם  on  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
וְאַחַ֥ר  and  after  [that] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb
Root: אַחַר 
Sense: after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time).
אֶחְדָּֽל  I  will  cease 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: חָדַל 
Sense: to stop, cease, desist, forego, cease to be, leave undone, forbear.

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