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Delilah. A Delilah, from the name of the biblical courtesan, signifies both a temptress and a seductive wife or mistress who turns to treachery. Delilah in the biblical story (Judg. 16:4–20) had been bribed by the Philistines to learn the source of Sam- son’s strength. Samson lied to her three times, but on her fourth attempt she learned that his power lay in his long hair, had his head shaved while he slept upon her knees, and betrayed him to his enemies. Little is told of Delilah except that she was a “woman in the valley of Sorek.” After she collects “eleven hun- dred pieces of silver” for her tonsorial treachery, she is heard from no more. |