Judges 13:18
Good News Translation
The angel asked, "Why do you want to know my name? It is a name of wonder."

New Revised Standard Version
But the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful.”

Contemporary English Version
"No," the angel replied. "You don't need to know my name. And if you did, you couldn't understand it."

New American Bible
The angel of the LORD answered him: Why do you ask my name? It is wondrous.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is wonderful?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is wonderful?

Why askest.

Judges 13:6 And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not tell me:

Genesis 32:29 Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

secret.

Isaiah 9:6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Context
The Birth of Samson
17And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall come to pass, we may honour thee? 18And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is wonderful?19Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he and his wife looked on.…
Cross References
Genesis 32:29
Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

Isaiah 9:6
For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Judges 13:17
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