Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room.
She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!”
He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire.
So his strength was not known.