Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

King James Version

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

Holman Bible

Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went to bed with her.

International Standard Version

Sometime later, Samson went to Gaza, saw a prostitute there, and went in to have sex with her.

A Conservative Version

And Samson went to Gaza, and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

American Standard Version

And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

Amplified

Then Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and went in to her.

Bible in Basic English

Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her.

Darby Translation

Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a harlot, and he went in to her.

Julia Smith Translation

And Samson will go to Gaza, and he will see there a woman, a harlot, and he will go in to her.

King James 2000

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Samson went down to Gaza; there he saw a prostitute and {had sex with her}.

Modern King James verseion

Then Samson went to Gaza. And he saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an whore, and went in unto her.

NET Bible

Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her.

New Heart English Bible

Samson went to Gaza, and saw a prostitute there, and went in to her.

The Emphasized Bible

Then went Samson unto Gaza, - and saw there an unchaste woman, and went in unto her.

Webster

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.

World English Bible

Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

שׁמשׁון 
Shimshown 
Usage: 38

to Gaza
עזּה 
`Azzah 
Usage: 21

and saw
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

and went in

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

References

Context Readings

Samson And Delilah

1 Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her. 2 When it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. And they kept silent all night, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him.”


Cross References

Joshua 15:47

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; as far as the brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its coastline.

Genesis 10:19

The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 38:16-18

So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, “Here now, let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

Ezra 9:1-2

Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

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