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# דְּלִילָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1807

**Delilah** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

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

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Delilah (5); \[was\] Delilah (1).

## In the verses

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

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.

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

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.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1807/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).