Hakim-hakim 14:20

14:20 Samson’s bride was then given to his best man. ¹ 

Hakim-hakim 4:4

4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, ²  wife of Lappidoth, was ³  leading ⁴  Israel at that time.

Hakim-hakim 5:24

5:24 The most rewarded ⁵  of women should be Jael,

the wife of Heber the Kenite!

She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

Hakim-hakim 4:17

4:17 Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor ⁶  and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty. ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 4:21

4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ⁸  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ⁹  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ¹⁰  and he died.

Hakim-hakim 11:2

11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave ¹¹  him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, ¹²  because you are another woman’s son.”

Hakim-hakim 14:16

14:16 So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder ¹³  and said, “You must ¹⁴  hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men ¹⁵  a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” ¹⁶ 

[14:20]  ¹ tn Heb “to his companion who had been his attendant.”

[4:4]  ² tn Heb “ a woman, a prophetess.” In Hebrew idiom the generic “woman” sometimes precedes the more specific designation. See GKC 437-38 §135.b.

[4:4]  ³ tn Heb “she was.” The pronoun refers back to the nominative absolute “Deborah.” Hebrew style sometimes employs such resumptive pronouns when lengthy qualifiers separate the subject from the verb.

[4:4]  ⁴ tn Or “judging.”

[5:24]  ⁵ tn Or “blessed.”

[4:17]  ⁶ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[4:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “for there was peace between.”

[4:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

[4:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

[4:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and exhausted.” Another option is to understand this as a reference to the result of the fatal blow. In this case, the phrase could be translated, “and he breathed his last.”

[11:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “bore.”

[11:2]  ¹² tn Heb “in the house of our father.”

[14:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “on him.”

[14:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “only”; or “simply.”

[14:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the sons of my people.”

[14:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Should I tell you?”