Delilah Definition

də-līlə
noun
The lover of Samson, who betrayed him to the Philistines: Judg. 16
Webster's New World
A seductive, treacherous woman; temptress.
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The mistress of Samson who betrayed him to the Philistines.

Wiktionary
A beautiful, cunning and treacherous woman; a femme fatale.
Though she is something of a Delilah, she is still considered the heroine of the novel.
Wiktionary
A female given name of biblical origin.
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Other Word Forms of Delilah

Noun

Singular:
Delilah
Plural:
delilahs

Origin of Delilah

  • From an obscure Hebrew word often said to mean "delightful, seductive".

    From Wiktionary

Delilah Sentence Examples

  • Delilah put him to sleep upon her lap, called in a man to shave off his seven locks, and this time he was easily captured.

  • It was not a success, and he did not again exhibit till 1858, when he sent a little picture of "The Fisherman and the Syren" to the Royal Academy, and "Samson and Delilah" to the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street.

  • In addition to a number of subject-pictures, such as "Trop Tard" (1870), "Samson et Delilah" (1871), and others taken from Moroccan studies, he was an eminent painter of portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the day, one of his last being that of Queen Victoria (1900).

  • Like Delilah, she coaxed the destined cause of death from Llew and then entrapped him by enacting the conditions exactly.

  • Delilah is the " Goddess night ", night being equated with the night hag, Lilith, ultimately the Babylonian Goddess Ninlil blackened.

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