Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
"In calling her a ’heifer’ he was ridiculing her for her untamed and stubborn spirit (cf. Jeremiah 50:11; Hosea 4:16)." [Note: Lindsey, p. 405.] 