‘And Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have made fun of me and told me untruths. Tell me in what way you might be bound.” '
These words were no doubt hidden in much love play and tender caressing, and said with gentle chiding as from one amused by her lover's jesting. But underneath she was deadly serious.
‘And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the warp threads.” '
This was either put as a very pithy answer or, as is more likely in the light of verse 14, for it does not seem to make sense on its own (unless it was a technical description using technical words whos emeaning was lost prior to the LXX translation), some letters may have dropped out of the text in copying. LXX has a much longer version, probably based on a Hebrew text, ‘if you weave the seven locks of my head with the warp threads, and fasten them up to the beam with the pin, then I will be weak like other men.' The idea would seem to be that she would need to use her loom to weave his hair together with the warp threads of the loom and then pin it to the beam of the loom.