Judges 16:8 DBY

⁶  And Deli'lah said to Samson, 'Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.'

⁷  And Samson said to her, 'If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.'

⁸  Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

⁹  Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, 'The Philistines are upon you, Samson!' But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

¹⁰  And Deli'lah said to Samson, 'Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me how you might be bound.'