He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
and the Syriac and Arabic versions, in Sahaph, which is on the rock of Etam, as if Sahaph was the name of a city there; hither Samson went, not through fear, or for safety, but to wait for another opportunity of further avenging the injuries of Israel on the Philistines.