Rashi on the Former Prophets

The Azites were informed. It was said to the people of Aza.
They were silent [lit. "They were muted"]. They acted in silence.

Uprooted them [lit. "moved them"]. He uprooted them from their places.

Cords. Thin strings.

The source of his strength was not revealed. It was not necessary for him to exert himself when he snapped them.

With ropes. Thick rope.

Tresses Locks. "Pelous" in old French.
With the mounting pin. A wooden rod which the weaver uses to mount the threads of the warp. The name of the wood is "ensouple", of the pin, "ourdissuire".

And goaded him. She oppressed him. There is no similar word.

Delilah saw that he had confided to her. One instinctively recognizes the truth.

[She] summoned the man. The nobles' agent.

They brought him down to Aza. The location where his ruin began
He became the miller. With grinding stones—arduous labor. The Rabbis interpret this after their fashion.

Between the pillars which supported the building.

And give me a hold. "Palpare" in old French, as in, "Perhaps my father will touch me."

Please remember me. Remember the twenty years that I judged Yisroel without asking any of them to carry a staff from place to place.
Avenge one of my two eyes. The reward for my second eye reserve for me in the World to Come. At present, grant me the reward for one of them.

Shimshon embraced. He grasped, "embrasser" in old French, as in "The man trembled, and was embraced"—he was embraced in a woman's arms.