delilah

     

Delilah or (דְּלִילָה, Stanard Hebrew meaning "[One who] weakened or uprooted or impoverished" from the root dal meaning "weak or poor".) appears only in the Hebrew Bible Book of Judges 16, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall. Her figure, one of several dangerous temptresses in the Hebew Bible, has become emblematic: "Samson loved Delilah, she betrayed him, and, what is worse, she did it for money", Madlyn Kahr begins her study of the Delilah motif in European painting.

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  • This woman is wanted in connection with stolen hair & the kidnapping of her boyfriend by Philistines
  • She was offered 1,100 pieces of silver from each Philistine lord for help in defeating Samson
  • After 3 attempts, she discovered the secret of Samson's strength & betrayed him to the Philistines
  • She commanded Samson, "Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth"
  • It really cut Samson to be betrayed by this Philistine
  • She was the Philistine mistress of Samson who got him to tell the secret of his strength
  • In a Saint-Saens opera, Samson succumbs to the charms of this Philistine woman & ends up dead
  • There's a hair-raising--oops!--hair-cutting scene in Saint-Saens' opera about Samson & her
  • When Samson wouldn't tell her the source of his strength, she said, "Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies"
  • "And it came to pass" that Samson loved this "woman in the valley of Sorek"
  • Samson's locks-smith(7)
  • She's the Biblical woman in the book of Judges forever associated with Samson & the loss of his hair
  • Samson brought the house down when she tricked him into appearing on the "No More Secrets!" show
  • Various sources list her name as meaning "temptress" & "seductive"
  • Tom Jones:"Why, why, why" her
  • The Plain White T's, not Tom Jones, scored a hit with the 2006 ballad "Hey There" this girl
  • Gaza is the setting for a Biblical opera about Samson and this hussy
  • "Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth"

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