'Answered' in the Bible

“Her wise ladies answered her,Indeed, she repeated her words to herself,

He went from there up to Penuel and spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth had answered.

They answered, “We will certainly give them to you.” And they spread out a garment, and every one of them threw an earring there from his spoil.

The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they answered, “We have come up to bind Samson, in order to do to him as he has done to us.”