Judges 15:16
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| Overview - Judges 15 | |
| 1 | Samson is denied his wife. |
| 3 | He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands. |
| 6 | His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines. |
| 7 | Samson smites them hip and thigh. |
| 9 | He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines. |
| 14 | He kills them with a jawbone. |
| 18 | God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi. |
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Judges 15:16 (King James Version)
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
- with the jaw-bone There is here a fine paronomasia upon the word {chamor,} "an ass," which also signifies "a heap;" {bilchee hachamor, chamor chamorathayim,} "With the jaw-bone of an ass, a heap upon two heaps."
- heaps upon heaps
- Hebrew an heap, two heaps.
- 15:16