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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Judges 16:7 Catholic Bible: Samson answered, "If they tie me up with seven new bowstrings that are not dried out, I'll be as weak as anybody else." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/judges/16-7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/judges/16-7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/judges/16-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/judges/1.htm">Judges</a> > <a href="/gntd/judges/16.htm">Chapter 16</a> > Verse 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/16-6.htm" title="Judges 16:6">◄</a> Judges 16:7 <a href="../judges/16-8.htm" title="Judges 16:8">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/judges/16.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/judges/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Samson answered, "If they tie me up with seven new bowstrings that are not dried out, I'll be as weak as anybody else." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/judges/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried out, then I shall become weak, and be like anyone else.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/judges/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Samson answered, "If someone ties me up with seven new bowstrings that have never been dried, it will make me just as weak as anyone else." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/judges/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />“If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not dried,” Samson answered her, “I shall grow weaker and be like anyone else.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/judges/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other men.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other men.</p><p class="hdg">if they bind</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/16-10.htm">Judges 16:10</a> And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest be bound.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/19-17.htm">1 Samuel 19:17</a> And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/21-2.htm">1 Samuel 21:2,3</a> And David said to Achimelech, the priest: The king hath commanded me a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art sent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/27-10.htm">1 Samuel 27:10</a> And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David answered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel, and against the south of Ceni.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/12-19.htm">Proverbs 12:19</a> The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/17-7.htm">Proverbs 17:7</a> Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/3-8.htm">Romans 3:8</a> And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7</a> Be not deceived: God is not mocked.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/3-9.htm">Colossians 3:9</a> Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,</p><p class="hdg">green withs, or new cords.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/judges/16.htm">Samson and Delilah</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is, wherewith if thou wert bound, thou couldst not break loose. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl">And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other men.</span><span class="reftext">8</span>And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with which she bound him;…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../judges/16-6.htm">Judges 16:6</a></span><br />And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is, wherewith if thou wert bound, thou couldst not break loose.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../judges/16-8.htm">Judges 16:8</a></span><br />And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with which she bound him;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../judges/16-9.htm">Judges 16:9</a></span><br />Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber, expecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/judges/16-5.htm">Bind</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Bow-Cords</a> <a href="/psalms/21-12.htm">Bowstrings</a> <a href="/judges/15-14.htm">Cords</a> <a href="/joshua/5-1.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/judges/6-40.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/numbers/31-46.htm">Human</a> <a href="/genesis/43-9.htm">I'll</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-24.htm">Knotted</a> <a href="/judges/15-15.htm">New</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-6.htm">Race</a> <a href="/judges/15-13.htm">Round</a> <a href="/judges/16-6.htm">Samson</a> <a href="/judges/14-17.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/acts/22-25.htm">Thongs</a> <a href="/genesis/49-11.htm">Ties</a> <a href="/judges/6-15.htm">Weak</a> <a href="/judges/16-9.htm">Withes</a> <a href="/judges/16-9.htm">Withs</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/judges/16-11.htm">Bind</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Bow-Cords</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Bowstrings</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Cords</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/judges/16-11.htm">Human</a> <a href="/judges/16-11.htm">I'll</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Knotted</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">New</a> <a href="/judges/16-11.htm">Race</a> <a href="/judges/16-11.htm">Round</a> <a href="/judges/16-9.htm">Samson</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Thongs</a> <a href="/judges/16-11.htm">Ties</a> <a href="/judges/16-11.htm">Weak</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Withes</a> <a href="/judges/16-8.htm">Withs</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/judges/16-7.htm">Judges 16:7 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and answered any anyone as be become been bind cords dried fresh have her I If I'll like man me not other said Samson seven that then they thongs ties to weak will with<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/judges/16-7.htm">OT History: Judges 16:7 Samson said to her If they bind (Jd Judg. 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