Judges 16:30
Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
פְּלִשְׁתִּי
Pᵉlishtîy
a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth
שָׁחָה
shâchâh
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
שָׁם
shâm
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
מָוֶת
mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁחָה shâchâh
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
Study H7812 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →Cross References
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly u...
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel ...
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
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 ang...
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
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