There is a play upon the word, three times repeated, which means both “an ass” and also “a heap.” The spirit of riddle-making ([Reference Judges 14…

And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass. — Here we once more find ourselves in very primitive regions of poetry and paronomasia. Samso…

And Samson said
In a kind of triumphant song:

with the jawbone of an a , heaps upon heaps