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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

/ל Hebrew · H9005 20,810 tagged occurrences in 12,010 verses

Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.

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TBESH · H9005

/ל · l · to/for

Prefix lamed: to

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Verses containing H9005

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  1. Judges 14:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.

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  2. Judges 14:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

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  3. Judges 14:12 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

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  4. Judges 14:13 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”

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  5. Judges 14:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.

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  6. Judges 14:15 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

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  7. Judges 14:16 · BSB · 6 occurrences

    Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

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  8. Judges 14:17 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.

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  9. Judges 14:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”

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  10. Judges 14:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,

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  11. Judges 14:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

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  12. Judges 15:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

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  13. Judges 15:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

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  14. Judges 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”

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  15. Judges 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

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  16. Judges 15:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

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  17. Judges 15:10 · BSB · 5 occurrences

    “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”

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  18. Judges 15:11 · BSB · 5 occurrences

    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

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  19. Judges 15:12 · BSB · 5 occurrences

    But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”

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  20. Judges 15:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

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  21. Judges 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

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  22. Judges 15:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

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  23. Judges 16:2 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

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  24. Judges 16:5 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

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  25. Judges 16:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

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  26. Judges 16:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

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  27. Judges 16:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

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  28. Judges 16:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

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  29. Judges 16:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”

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  30. Judges 16:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

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  31. Judges 16:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

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  32. Judges 16:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

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  33. Judges 16:18 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.

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  34. Judges 16:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.

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  35. Judges 16:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

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  36. Judges 16:23 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

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  37. Judges 16:25 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.

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  38. Judges 17:2 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”

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  39. Judges 17:3 · BSB · 5 occurrences

    And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”

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  40. Judges 17:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

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  41. Judges 17:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

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  42. Judges 17:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

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  43. Judges 17:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”

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  44. Judges 17:10 · BSB · 6 occurrences

    “Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in

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  45. Judges 17:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.

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  46. Judges 17:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

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  47. Judges 17:13 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

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  48. Judges 18:1 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

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  49. Judges 18:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.

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  50. Judges 18:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”

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