The girl from Timnah has no name. In the book of Judges, chapter 14, she is just referred to as the girl from Timnah.
Yet it is this girl who captured the attention of Samson.
This girl is also a Philistine. Something his parents forbid him to marry. But the Lord works through him in mysterious ways and in the end married her.
The bulk of the chapter deals with Samson's killing of a lion along the road and finding its insides full of honey. He based a riddle on this lion to a group of Philistines. His wife tricked him into telling her, who in turn told the Philitines the answer to the riddle.
The Philistines were rewarded by a having fine linen given to them and the girl from Timnah--Samson's wife--was given to his best man.
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