Delilah retold in Regina Spektor's love song "Samson" from her album "Songs" (2000). Delilah Delilah (; (meaning "She dwindles") "Dəlilah", Dəlila, Tiberian Hebrew Dəlilah; Arabic Dalilah; Greek Δαλιδά "Dalida"; meaning "faithless one") is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. She is loved by Samson, a Nazirite who possesses great strength and serves as the final Judge of Israel. Delilah is bribed by the lords of the Philistines to discover the source of his strength. After three failed attempts at doing so, she finally goads Samson into telling her that his vigor
Delilah Ruth, and "bad" foreigners like Jezebel and Delilah. Contrariwise, Elizabeth Wurtzel sees Samson's relationship with Delilah as "the archetypal story of cross-cultural love between members of warring nations", akin to "Romeo and Juliet". According to the "Encyclopædia Britannica", Delilah's name has "become synonymous with a voluptuous, treacherous woman". The use of the name "Delilah" to connote deceit or betrayal can be found in works such as H. G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" (1897), the Tom Jones song "Delilah" (1968), Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986), and Pat Conroy's "Beach Music" (1995). In "One Thousand and One Nights",