Judges 16:16
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And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death.

she pressed

Proverbs 7:21-23,26,27 Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds, . . .

Luke 11:8 Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

Luke 18:5 Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.

vexed.

Job 21:4 Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

Jonah 4:9 And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Mark 14:24 And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many.

Context
Delilah Discovers the Secret
15And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth. 16And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death.17Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.…
Cross References
Judges 16:15
And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth.

Judges 16:17
Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.

Lexicon
Finally, after
וַ֠יְהִי (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

she had pressed
הֵצִ֨יקָה (hê·ṣî·qāh)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6693: To constrain, bring into straits, press upon

him daily
הַיָּמִ֖ים (hay·yā·mîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

with her words
בִדְבָרֶ֛יהָ (ḇiḏ·ḇā·re·hā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

and pleaded
וַתְּאַֽלֲצֵ֑הוּ (wat·tə·’a·lă·ṣê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 509: To press

until he
נַפְשׁ֖וֹ (nap̄·šōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

was sick
וַתִּקְצַ֥ר (wat·tiq·ṣar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

to death,
לָמֽוּת׃ (lā·mūṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill


Additional Translations
Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.

And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death;

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;

It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.

And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,
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