Judges 16:31
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And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.

his brethren

John 19:39-42 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. . . .

between Zorah

Judges 13:2,25 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren. . . .

Joshua 19:41 And the border of their possession was Saraa and Esthaol, and Hirsemes, that is, the city of the sun,

and he judged

Judges 15:20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Context
Samson's Vengeance and Death
30He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life. 31And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.
Cross References
Joshua 15:33
But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,

Judges 15:20
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Judges 16:30
He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life.

Judges 17:1
There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Michas.

Lexicon
Then [Samson's] brothers
אֶחָ֜יו (’e·ḥāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

and his father’s
אָבִיהוּ֮ (’ā·ḇî·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

family
בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house

came down,
וַיֵּרְד֨וּ (way·yê·rə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

carried him back,
וַֽיַּעֲל֣וּ ׀ (way·ya·‘ă·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

and buried
וַיִּקְבְּר֣וּ (way·yiq·bə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6912: To inter

him between
בֵּ֤ין (bên)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 996: An interval, space between

Zorah
צָרְעָה֙ (ṣā·rə·‘āh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6881: Zorah -- a city exchanged by Judah and Dan

and Eshtaol
אֶשְׁתָּאֹ֔ל (’eš·tā·’ōl)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 847: Eshtaol -- to found, establish

in the tomb
בְּקֶ֖בֶר (bə·qe·ḇer)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6913: A grave, sepulcher

of his father
אָבִ֑יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

Manoah.
מָנ֣וֹחַ (mā·nō·w·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4495: Manoah -- father of Samson

And he
וְה֛וּא (wə·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

had judged
שָׁפַ֥ט (šā·p̄aṭ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

twenty
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים (‘eś·rîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6242: Twenty, twentieth

years.
שָׁנָֽה׃ (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8141: A year


Additional Translations
Then Samson's brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial plot of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

And his brethren and his father's house went down, and they took him; and they went up and buried him between Saraa and Esthaol in the sepulchre of his father Manoe; and he judged Israel twenty years.

And his brethren came down, and all the house of his father, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zoreah and Eshtaol in the sepulchre of Manoah his father. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

And his brethren come down, and all the house of his father, and lift him up, and bring him up, and bury him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying-place of Manoah his father; and he hath judged Israel twenty years.
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