Judges 15:8
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And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.

Isaiah 25:10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.

Isaiah 63:3,6 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel. . . .

Context
Samson's Revenge
7But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet. 8And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.9Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread abroad.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

Judges 15:7
But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.

Judges 15:9
Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread abroad.

Judges 15:11
Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.

Lexicon
And he struck
וַיַּ֨ךְ (way·yaḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5221: To strike

them ruthlessly
שׁ֛וֹק (šō·wq)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7785: The, leg

with a great
גְדוֹלָ֑ה (ḡə·ḏō·w·lāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1419: Great, older, insolent

slaughter,
מַכָּ֣ה (mak·kāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4347: A wound, carnage, pestilence

and then went down
וַיֵּ֣רֶד (way·yê·reḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

and stayed
וַיֵּ֔שֶׁב (way·yê·šeḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in the cave
בִּסְעִ֖יף (bis·‘îp̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5585: A fissure, a bough

at the rock
סֶ֥לַע (se·la‘)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5553: A craggy rock

of Etam.
עֵיטָֽם׃ (‘ê·ṭām)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5862: Etam -- three places in Israel


Additional Translations
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelled in the top of the rock Etam.

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

And he smiteth them hip and thigh -- a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.
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