Judges 14:20
Strong's Lexicon
and his
שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן (šim·šō·wn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8123: Samson = 'like the sun' 1) a Danite, son of Manoah, a Nazarite for life, and a judge of Israel for 20 years

לְמֵ֣רֵעֵ֔הוּ (lə·mê·rê·‘ê·hū)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4828: 1) companion, friend, confidential friend

wife
אֵ֣שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 802: 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

was given
וַתְּהִ֖י (wat·tə·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

to one of the men who
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: 1) (relative part.) 1a) which, who 1b) that which 2) (conj) 2a) that (in obj clause) 2b) when 2c) since 2d) as 2e) conditional if

had accompanied
רֵעָ֖ה (rê·‘āh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7462: 1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tend, pasture 1a1a) to shepherd 1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig) 1a1c) of people as flock (fig) 1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst) 1a2) to feed, graze 1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal) 1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig) 1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess 2) to associate with, be a friend of (meaning probable) 2a) (Qal) to associate with 2b) (Hithpael) to be companions 3) (Piel) to be a special friend

him.
לֽוֹ׃ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew :

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

Young's Literal Translation
and Samson’s wife becometh his companion’s, who [is ] his friend.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

New American Standard Bible
But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion who had been his friend.

King James Bible
But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
And Samson's wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.

New Living Translation
So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson's best man at the wedding.

English Standard Version
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

New American Standard Bible
But Samson's wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.

King James Bible
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

International Standard Version
and Samson's wife went to the best man at his wedding.

NET Bible
Samson's bride was then given to his best man.

American Standard Version
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

English Revised Version
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Young's Literal Translation
and Samson's wife becometh his companion's, who is his friend.
















Cross References
Judges 15:2
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

Song of Solomon 5:1
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Judges 1:1
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

Judges 14:18
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

Judges 14:17
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

Judges 15:1
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Judges 15:3
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
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