Delilah דְּלִילָה

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Delilah
דְּלִילָה
Transliterationdelilah
Strong's numberH1807
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a woman
GlossDelilah
Occurrences6 in 6 verses

Delilah (Hebrew דְּלִילָה, Strong's H1807) is a name of a woman in the Old Testament, glossed “Delilah”. It occurs 6 times.

Definition

A woman living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.16.4; married to Samson (H8123)
§ Delilah = "feeble"
the Philistine mistress of Samson who betrayed the secret of his great strength, and by cutting his hair, enfeebled him and delivered him to the Philistines

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVdelilah (6)
BSBdelilah (5), was delilah (1)

Verses

Every verse with Delilah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Judges

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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