Judges 14:3

It was the father's business to arrange a marriage and the amount of the dowry, e.g. Genesis 24:2 ff; Genesis 34:4; Genesis 38:6. Hence the father alone is named in clause b; in cl. athe words and his motherlook like an insertion to harmonize with Judges 14:2: note my people; saidis singular.

the uncircumcised A standing term of contempt in Judg. and Sam., pointing to the alien origin of the Philistines, the only uncircumcised people known to the early Israelites; see on Judges 13:1 and cf. 1 Samuel 18:25. A marriage outside the tribe was looked upon with disfavour, Genesis 29:19; both tribal feeling and religious motives would combine against an alliance with a Philistine; cf. Genesis 24:3; Exodus 34:16 (JE), Deuteronomy 7:3.