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# delilah

«delilah» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The woman Samson loved in the valley of Sorek** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The woman Samson loved in the valley of Sorek. She was a Philistine who got his secret and betrayed him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delilah/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: She is the woman who was paid by the Philistine lords to find out the secret of Samson's strength. She cut his hair and gave him to his enemies. Interpretation: Tradition sees Samson's downfall as a warning about following his eyes and desires. His hair marked his Nazirite vow, and so his strength came from keeping faith with God.

### examples

- And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. (Prophets JDG.16.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delilah/#x1)
- And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.' (Prophets JDG.16.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delilah/#x2)
- And Delilah said unto Samson: 'Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.' (Prophets JDG.16.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delilah/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.471/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «delilah» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delilah/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.