Judges 16:22

Brenton's Septuagint

And the hair of his head began to grow as before it was shaven.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But his hair began to grow back after it had been shaved.

Hebrew Names Version
However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

King James Version
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

Lexham English Bible
But the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved off.

English Standard Version
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

New Century Version
But his hair began to grow again.

New English Translation
His hair began to grow back after it had been shaved off.

Amplified Bible
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved off.

New American Standard Bible
However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaved off.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the heare of his head began to growe againe after that it was shauen.

Legacy Standard Bible
And on some, who are doubting, have mercy;

Contemporary English Version
But they didn't cut his hair any more, so it started growing back.

Complete Jewish Bible
However, after the hair on his head had been cut off, it began growing back again.

Darby Translation
But the hair of his head began to grow after he was shaved.

Easy-to-Read Version
But his hair began to grow again.

George Lamsa Translation
But the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

Good News Translation
But his hair started growing back.

Literal Translation
But the hair of his head began to grow, for he had been shaved.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the heer of his heade beganne to growe agayne, where it was shauen of.

American Standard Version
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

Bible in Basic English
But the growth of his hair was starting again after it had been cut off.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howbeit the heere of his head began to growe agayne after that he was shauen.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

King James Version (1611)
Howbeit, the haire of his head began to grow againe, after he was shauen.

English Revised Version
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

Berean Standard Bible
However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now hise heeris bigunnen to growe ayen;

Young's Literal Translation
And the hair of his head beginneth to shoot up, when he hath been shaven,

Update Bible Version
Nevertheless the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

Webster's Bible Translation
However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

World English Bible
However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

New King James Version
However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.

New Living Translation
But before long, his hair began to grow back.

New Life Bible
But the hair of his head started to grow again after it was cut off.

New Revised Standard
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the hair of his head began to grow, after he had been shaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now his hair began to grow again,

Revised Standard Version
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaved off.

Contextual Overview

²² And the hair of his head began to grow as before it was shaven. ²³ And the chiefs of the Philistines met to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to make merry; and they said, God has given into our hand our enemy Sampson. ²⁴ And the people saw him, and sang praises to their god; for our god, said they, has delivered into our hand our enemy, who wasted our land, and who multiplied our slain. ²⁵ And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Sampson out of the prison-house, and let him play before us: and they called Sampson out of the prison-house, and he played before them; and they smote him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars. ²⁶ And Sampson said to the young man that held his hand, Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, and I will stay myself upon them. ²⁷ And the house was full of men and woman, and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof were about three thousand men and woman looking at the sports of Sampson. ²⁸ And Sampson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my lord, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ And Sampson took hold of the two pillars of the house on which the house stood, and leaned on them, and laid hold of one with his right hand, and the other with his left. ³⁰ And Sampson said, Let my wife perish with the Philistines: and he bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it: and the dead whom Sampson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life. ³¹ 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the hair: Leviticus 26:44, Deuteronomy 32:36, Psalms 106:44, Psalms 106:45, Psalms 107:13, Psalms 107:14

after he was shaven: or, as when he was shaven

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:17 - shall be 1 Chronicles 19:5 - your beards

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. It began to grow immediately no doubt, as it naturally would do; but it is highly probable it grew in an extraordinary manner, and in a short time became as when it was shaved n, as it may be rendered, and upon which his strength was renewed; not that his strength naturally lay in his hair, and so naturally increased as that grew; but he being made sensible of his sin, and repenting of it, renewed his Nazariteship, of which letting his hair grow was a token; and it pleased God, who accepted of his repentance as genuine, of his own good will and pleasure to renew his strength; particularly upon his prayer to him, after related.

n כאשר גלח "ut rasus fuerat", Tigurine version, Vatablus; "ut quum abraderetur", Junius & Tremellius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 16:22. The hair of his head began to grow again — And may we not suppose that, sensible of his sin and folly, he renewed his Nazir vow to the Lord, in consequence of which his supernatural strength was again restored?