Delilah 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 is derived from his hair. As he sleeps, Delilah orders a servant
Samson and Delilah (1984 film) entered the Middle East through the Doric migrations around 1200 BC. Mature says he told the producer "I'll play Samson's mother if the price is right." Samson and Delilah (1984 film) Samson and Delilah is a 1984 television film adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, starring Max von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Antony Hamilton, Daniel Stern and Victor Mature. Mature played Samson in the 1949 film and had a small cameo as the father of Antony Hamilton's Samson. This was his final acting role. Based on the novel "Husband of Delilah" by Eric Linklater, "Samson and Delilah" originally