Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And she saith unto him, 'How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is.'

New American Standard Bible

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is.”

King James Version

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Holman Bible

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great!”

International Standard Version

Some time later, she asked him, "How can you keep saying "I love you!' when your heart isn't with me? These three times you've lied to me and haven't told me where your great strength lies."

A Conservative Version

And she said to him, How can thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou have mocked me these three times, and have not told me with what thy great strength lays.

American Standard Version

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Amplified

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

Bible in Basic English

And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

Darby Translation

And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies."

Julia Smith Translation

And she will say to him, Wilt thou say, I loved thee, and thy heart not with me? This three times thou didst deceive me, and didst not announce to me in what is thy great strength.

King James 2000

And she said unto him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me how your strength is [so] great."

Modern King James verseion

And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, and your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in what your great strength lies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then she said unto him, "How canst thou say that thou lovest me, when thine heart is not with me? For thou hast mocked me this three times, and hast not told wherein thy great strength lieth."

NET Bible

She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong."

New Heart English Bible

She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies."

The Emphasized Bible

And she said unto him - How canst thou say, I love thee, when, thy heart, is not with me? These three times, hast thou laughed at me, and hast not told me wherein lieth thy great strength.

Webster

And she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me in what thy great strength lieth.

World English Bible

She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies."

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
איככה איכה איך 
'eyk 
Usage: 82

canst thou say

Usage: 0

I love
אהב אהב 
'ahab 
Usage: 212

is not with me thou hast mocked
התל 
Hathal 
Usage: 10

שׁלשׁה שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ 
Shalowsh 
Usage: 430

פּעמה פּעם 
Pa`am 
Usage: 118

and hast not told
נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

כּוח כּח 
Koach 
Usage: 126

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Samson And Delilah

14 And she fixeth it with the pin, and saith unto him, 'Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web. 15 And she saith unto him, 'How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is.' 16 And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,

Cross References

Judges 14:16

And Samson's wife weepeth for it, and saith, 'Thou hast only hated me, and hast not loved me; the riddle thou hast put forth to the sons of my people -- and to me thou hast not declared it;' and he saith to her, 'Lo, to my father and to my mother I have not declared it -- and to thee I declare it!'

Genesis 29:20

and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

Deuteronomy 6:5

and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

1 Samuel 15:13-14

And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, 'Blessed art thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.'

2 Samuel 16:17

And Absalom saith unto Hushai, 'This thy kindness with thy friend! why hast thou not gone with thy friend?'

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Proverbs 5:3-14

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,

Proverbs 23:26

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

Song of Songs 8:6-7

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

John 14:15

'If ye love me, my commands keep,

John 14:21-24

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

John 15:10

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

1 John 2:15-16

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

1 John 5:3

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

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