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title: דְּלִילָה — Delilah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּלִילָה (1807), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Delilah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. Delila. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּלִילָה

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«דְּלִילָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Delilah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 1807 · **BDB:** דְּלִילָה

### Glosses

Delilah (5); \[was\].Delilah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Delilah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1807/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. Delila [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1807/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Delila, Philistine woman, mistress of Samson Ju 16:4, 6, 10, 12, 13, 18.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּלִילָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1807/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 16:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.4/)

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וַֽיְהִי֙ אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב אִשָּׁ֖ה בְּנַ֣חַל שֹׂרֵ֑ק וּשְׁמָ֖הּ דְּלִילָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was after thus and he.loved a.woman in the.valley of.Sorek and name her \[was\].Delilah

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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[Judges 16:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.6/)

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וַתֹּ֤אמֶר דְּלִילָה֙ אֶל־שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א לִ֔י בַּמֶּ֖ה כֹּחֲךָ֣ גָד֑וֹל וּבַמֶּ֥ה תֵאָסֵ֖ר לְעַנּוֹתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and she.said Delilah to Samson tell please to me how? strength \[is\].your great and how? will.you.be.bound to humble you

*JPS 1917:* And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.'

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