Judges 16:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ to whom came the princes of the Philistines. And they said to her, “Entice him and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overcome him, so that we may bind him and punish him. And every one of us shall give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

⁶ And Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me, please, wherein your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound, to do you harm.”

⁷ Then Samson answered her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then I shall be weak and be as another man.”