1. Judges 16:6 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is meant by “subdue”?

Judges 16:6 (ESV)

6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”

The word has the connotation of afflict, torture. This is very much Delilah’s agenda.