Judges 14:7

7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.

Judges 14:7 in Other Translations

7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson's eyes.

7 When Samson arrived in Timnah, he talked with the woman and was very pleased with her.

7 Then he went on down and spoke to the woman. In Samson's eyes, she was the one.

7 Then he went and spoke to the woman, because Samson wanted her.

Judges 14:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 14:7

And he went down, and talked with the woman
Entered into a conversation with her, that he might the better judge of her other qualifications, besides that of outward form and beauty, whether she would be a suitable yoke fellow for him; and he talked with her about marriage, and proposed it to her, or talked about her to her father and near relations; and, as the Targum expresses it, asked the woman, not only asked of her consent, but demanded her of her friends: it may refer, as Abarbinel observes, to his father, that he went down and talked with the woman and with her relations about her, concerning the affair of his son's marriage with her:

and she pleased Samson well;
he liked her conversation as well as her person, and the more he conversed with her, the more agreeable she was to him, and the more desirous he was to marry her. Though some observe from hence, that she did not please the father of Samson as himself; so Abarbinel.

Judges 14:7 In-Context

5 Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.

6 The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.

8 Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.

9 He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.