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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ותהי אשת שמשון למרעהו אשר רעה לו
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
vthy ASHt SHmSHvn lmr`hv ASHr r`h lv

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
uxor autem eius accepit maritum unum de amicis eius et pronubis

King James Variants
American King James Version   
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his best man.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
Authorized (King James) Version   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
New King James Version   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
21st Century King James Version   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
Darby Bible Translation   
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for her husband.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
God's Word   
Samson's wife was given to his best man.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
International Standard Version   
and Samson's wife went to the best man at his wedding.
NET Bible   
Samson's bride was then given to his best man.
New American Standard Bible   
But Samson's wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.
New International Version   
And Samson's wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.
New Living Translation   
So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson's best man at the wedding.
Webster's Bible Translation   
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
The World English Bible   
But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Samson's wife became the wife of the man who had been his special friend at the party.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
and Samson's wife becometh his companion's, who [is] his friend.
New Life Version   
Samson’s wife was given to his friend who had been his best man at his wedding.
The Voice Bible   
and Samson’s wife was instead given to the companion who had been his best man.
Living Bible   
So his wife was married instead to the fellow who had been best man at Samson’s wedding.
New Catholic Bible   
Samson’s wife was given to his friend who had been his best man.
Legacy Standard Bible   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had fed him before.
Christian Standard Bible   
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
But Samson’s wife was [given] to his companion who was his [best] friend.
New Century Version   
And Samson’s wife was given to his best man.
The Message   
Then the Spirit of God came powerfully on him. He went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of their men, stripped them, and gave their clothing to those who had solved the riddle. Stalking out, smoking with anger, he went home to his father’s house. Samson’s bride became the wife of the best man at his wedding. * * *
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Meanwhile the Philistines gave Samson’s wife to one of the men who had attended him.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
Good News Translation®   
and his wife was given to the man that had been his best man at the wedding.
Wycliffe Bible   
Forsooth his wife took (as) an husband, one of the friends and privy keepers of her. [Forsooth the wife of him took an husband, one of his friends and wooers.]
Contemporary English Version   
The father of the bride made Samson's wife marry one of the 30 young men that had been at Samson's party.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
Common English Bible © 2011   
And Samson’s wife married one of those who had been his companions.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
and Samson’s wife was married to the companion who had been his best man.
New American Standard Bible   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.
The Expanded Bible   
And Samson’s wife was given to his best man [C one of those companions who had attended the feast].
Tree of Life Version   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his best man.
Revised Standard Version   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
New International Reader's Version   
Samson’s wife was given to someone else. She was given to a companion of Samson. The companion had helped him at the feast.
BRG Bible   
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
Complete Jewish Bible   
and his wife was given to the companion who had been best man at the wedding.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
But the isha of Shimshon was given to his companion, who had been his best man (i.e., his Shoshvin. See Yochanan 3:29 OJBC).
Names of God Bible   
Samson’s wife was given to his best man.
Modern English Version   
So Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
Easy-to-Read Version   
So Samson’s wife was given to his best man.
International Children’s Bible   
And Samson’s wife was given to his best man at the wedding.
Lexham English Bible   
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion who was his best man.
New International Version - UK   
And Samson’s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.