Judges 16:13

And Delilah said unto Samson ,.... At another time, when she thought it most proper to upbraid him with his deception of her:

hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies ; both the times that she had solicited him to impart the secret of his strength to her:

tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound ; tell me the real truth, and deceive me no more:

and he said unto her, if thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web ; it seems that Samson's hair was parted into seven locks, which no doubt hung down very long; and now he tells her, that if these were interwoven with the warp which was upon the beam in a loom near by; perhaps in the same room, where Delilah used to weave, as was the custom of those times, and in various nations F1 "Arguto conjux", &c.; Virgil. Georgie. l. 1. v. 294. So Penelope in Homer, Minerva & Arachne in Ovid. Metamorph. l. 6. fab. 1. v. 55, &c.; Vid. Pignorium de servis, p. 418. Braunium de Vest. Sacerd. Hebr. l. 1. c. 17. sect. 33. ; his strength would be weakened; for Braunius F2 "De Vest". Sacerd. Hebr. l. 1. c. 16. sect. 8. is mistaken in supposing this to be the beam about which the web was rolled, as he is also in the pin next mentioned, which he takes to be the "spatha", or lathe, with which the threads are knocked together.