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OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said Shimshōn in/on/at/with_jawbone the_donkey a_heap two_heaps in/on/at/with_jawbone the_donkey I_struck_down a_thousand man.
OET (OET-RV) Then Shimshon declared,
⇔ “With a donkey’s jawbone, one heap, two heaps,
⇔ ≈with a donkey’s jawbone, I’ve slaughtered a thousand men.”
Note 1 topic: writing-poetry
בִּלְחִ֣י הַחֲמ֔וֹר חֲמ֖וֹר חֲמֹרָתָ֑יִם בִּלְחִ֣י הַחֲמ֔וֹר
in/on/at/with,jawbone the,donkey heap two_heaps in/on/at/with,jawbone the,donkey
Samson is using words with similar sounds for poetic effect. In Hebrew, the word for donkey sounds similar to the word for heap. You may be able to reproduce this effect in your language. Alternate translation: “With the jawbone of an ass, a mass, two masses”
Note 2 topic: writing-poetry
חֲמ֖וֹר חֲמֹרָתָ֑יִם
heap two_heaps
In order to make an emphatic statement, Samson is naming a number that should be sufficient to illustrate his point and then increasing that number by one. This was a common device in Hebrew poetry. If a speaker of your language would not do this, in your translation you could express the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “I have killed enough men to make an enormous heap”
15:16 Like other warrior-heroes (e.g., Moses, Deborah, and David), Samson celebrated his victory in poetry, a short couplet that combines colorful speech with wordplay. “Lehi” (15:9) and jawbone are the same Hebrew word (lekhi), as are heaps and donkey (Hebrew khamor).
• piled them in heaps! Or made donkeys of them.
OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said Shimshōn in/on/at/with_jawbone the_donkey a_heap two_heaps in/on/at/with_jawbone the_donkey I_struck_down a_thousand man.
OET (OET-RV) Then Shimshon declared,
⇔ “With a donkey’s jawbone, one heap, two heaps,
⇔ ≈with a donkey’s jawbone, I’ve slaughtered a thousand men.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.