Judges 14:20

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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.	But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.	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.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

But Samson's^H8123 wife^H802 was given to his companion^H4828, whom he had used as his friend^H7462.

Original Hebrew

וַתְּהִי אֵשֶׁת שִׁמְשֹׁון לְמֵרֵעֵהוּ אֲשֶׁר רֵעָה לֹו׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/תְּהִ֖י	va./te.Hi	H1961	HC/Vqw3fs	and/ she belonged
אֵ֣שֶׁת	'E.shet	H802	HNcfsc	(the) wife of
שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן	shim.Shon	H8123	HNp	Samson
לְ/מֵ֣רֵעֵ֔/הוּ	le./Me.re.'E./hu	H4828	HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms	to/ companion/ his
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	who
רֵעָ֖ה	re.'Ah	H7462	HVpp3ms	he was a special friend
לֽ/וֹ	l/o		HR/Sp3ms	to (the)/ him

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H802 — אִשָּׁה (ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'): feminine of אִישׁ or אֱנוֹשׁ; irregular plural, נָשִׁים;(used in the same wide sense as אֱנוֹשׁ); a woman; (adulter) ess, each, every, female, [idiom] many, [phrase] none, one, [phrase] together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
H4828 — מֵרֵעַ (mêrêaʻ, may-ray'-ah): from רָעָה in the sense of companionship; a friend; companion, friend.
H7462 — רָעָה (râʻâh, raw-aw'): a primitive root; to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend); [idiom] break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, [phrase] shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
H8123 — שִׁמְשׁוֹן (Shimshôwn, shim-shone'): from שֶׁמֶשׁ; sunlight; Shimshon, an Israelite; Samson.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

given to — Judges 15:2
his friend — Psalms 55:12-13, Jeremiah 9:5, Micah 7:5, Matthew 26:49-50, John 3:29, John 13:18

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