An angelaAn angel Lit. “A messenger.” of GOD appeared tobappeared to Or “made contact with.” the woman and said to her, “You are infertile and have borne no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וירא
217
מלאךיהוה
117
אלהאשה
342
ויאמר
257
אליה
46
הנהנא
111
אתעקרה
776
ולא
37
ילדת
444
והרית
621
וילדת
450
בן
52
Judges 13:4
Gematria: 3428
ועתההשמרינאואלתשתיייןושכרואלתאכליכלטמא
Now be careful not to drink wine or other intoxicant, or to eat anything impure.
For you are going to conceive and bear a son; let no razor touch his head, for the boy is to be a nazirite to God from the womb on. He shall be the first to deliver Israel from the Philistines.”
The woman went and told her husband, “An agent of God came to me; he looked like an angel of God, very frightening. I did not ask him where he was from, nor did he tell me his name.
He said to me, ‘You are going to conceive and bear a son. Drink no wine or other intoxicant, and eat nothing impure, for the boy is to be a nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death!’”
Manoah pleaded with GOD. “Oh, my Sovereign!” he said, “please let the agent of God that You sent come to us again, and let him instruct us how to act with the child that is to be born.”
The woman ran in haste to tell her husband. She said to him, “The man who came to me beforecbefore Lit. “in the day.” has just appeared todappeared to Or “contacted.” me.”
She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, or drink wine or other intoxicant, or eat anything impure. She must observe all that I commanded her.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
מכל
90
אשריצא
602
מגפן
173
היין
75
לא
31
תאכל
451
ויין
76
ושכר
526
אלתשת
1131
וכלטמאה
111
אלתאכל
482
כל
50
אשרצויתיה
1022
תשמרס
1000
Judges 13:15
Gematria: 2167
ויאמרמנוחאלמלאךיהוהנעצרהנאאותךונעשהלפניךגדיעזים
Manoah said to the angel of GOD, “Let us detain you and prepare a kid for you.”
But the angel of GOD said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I shall not eat your food; and if you present a burnt offering, offer it to GOD.”—For Manoah did not know that he was an angel of GOD.
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ויאמר
257
מלאך
91
יהוה
26
אלמנוח
135
אםתעצרני
861
לאאכל
82
בלחמך
100
ואםתעשה
822
עלה
105
ליהוה
56
תעלנה
555
כי
30
לאידע
115
מנוח
104
כימלאך
121
יהוה
26
הוא
12
Judges 13:17
Gematria: 1532
ויאמרמנוחאלמלאךיהוהמישמךכייבאדבריךדברךוכבדנוך
So Manoah said to the angel of GOD, “What is your name? We should like to honor you when your words come true.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
מנוח
104
אלמלאך
122
יהוה
26
מי
50
שמך
360
כייבא
43
דבריך
236
דברך
226
וכבדנוך
108
Judges 13:18
Gematria: 1827
ויאמרלומלאךיהוהלמהזהתשאללשמיוהואפלאיפ
The angel said to him, “You must not ask for my name; it is unknowable!”
Manoah took the kid and the grain offering and offered them up on the rock to GOD; and a marvelous thing happenedeand a marvelous thing happened Meaning of Heb. uncertain. while Manoah and his wife looked on.
As the flames leaped up from the altar toward the sky, the angel of GOD ascended in the flames of the altar, while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they flung themselves on their faces to the ground.—
The angel of GOD never appeared again tofnever appeared again to Or “never again made contact with.” Manoah and his wife.—Manoah then realized that it had been an angel of GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולאיסף
187
עוד
80
מלאך
91
יהוה
26
להראה
241
אלמנוח
135
ואלאשתו
744
אז
8
ידע
84
מנוח
104
כימלאך
121
יהוה
26
הוא
12
Judges 13:22
Gematria: 2424
ויאמרמנוחאלאשתומותנמותכיאלהיםראינו
And Manoah said to his wife, “We will surely die, for we have seen a divine being.”
But his wife said to him, “Had GOD meant to take our lives, our burnt offering and grain offering would not have been accepted, nor would we have been shown all these things—and [God] would not have made such an announcement to us.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותאמר
647
לו
36
אשתו
707
לו
36
חפץ
178
יהוה
26
להמיתנו
541
לאלקח
169
מידנו
110
עלה
105
ומנחה
109
ולא
37
הראנו
262
אתכלאלה
487
וכעת
496
לא
31
השמיענו
481
כזאת
428
Judges 13:24
Gematria: 3606
ותלדהאשהבןותקראאתשמושמשוןויגדלהנערויברכהויהוה
The woman bore a son, and she named him Samson. The boy grew up, and GOD blessed him.
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ותלד
440
האשה
311
בן
52
ותקרא
707
אתשמו
747
שמשון
696
ויגדל
53
הנער
325
ויברכהו
249
יהוה
26
Judges 13:25
Gematria: 2376
ותחלרוחיהוהלפעמובמחנהדןביןצרעהוביןאשתאלפ
The spirit of GOD first moved him in the encampment of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.