Judges 16:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, ‘Entice him, and see wherein his great power [is], and wherein we are able for him—and we have bound him to afflict him, and we—we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.’

King James Bible
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.

Hebrew
The lords
סַרְנֵ֣י (sar·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5633: An axle, a peer

of the Philistines
פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים (p̄ə·liš·tîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 6430: Philistines -- inhabitants of Philistia

went
וַיַּעֲל֨וּ (way·ya·‘ă·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

to her
אֵלֶ֜יהָ (’ê·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

and said,
וַיֹּ֨אמְרוּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Entice
פַּתִּ֣י (pat·tî)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 6601: To open, be, roomy, to be, simple, delude

him
אוֹת֗וֹ (’ō·w·ṯōw)
Direct object marker | third person masculine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and find out
וּרְאִי֙ (ū·rə·’î)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the source of
בַּמֶּה֙ (bam·meh)
Preposition-b | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

his great
גָד֔וֹל (ḡā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

strength
כֹּח֣וֹ (kō·ḥōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

and how
וּבַמֶּה֙ (ū·ḇam·meh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

we can overpower
נ֣וּכַל (nū·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 3201: To be able, have power

him
ל֔וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

to tie him up
וַאֲסַרְנֻ֖הוּ (wa·’ă·sar·nu·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 631: To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle

and subdue him.
לְעַנֹּת֑וֹ (lə·‘an·nō·ṯōw)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6031: To be bowed down or afflicted

Then each one
אִ֕ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of us
וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ (wa·’ă·naḥ·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's 587: We

will give
נִתַּן־ (nit·tan-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

you
לָ֔ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

eleven hundred [shekels]
אֶ֥לֶף (’e·lep̄)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 505: A thousand

of silver.”
כָּֽסֶף׃ (kā·sep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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