16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” 1 16:7 Samson said to her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh 2 bowstrings 3 that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.”
1 tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”
2 tn Or “moist.”
3 tn The word refers to a bowstring, probably made from animal tendons. See Ps 11:2; Job 30:11.