Delilah (;
Dəlilah, meaning "[She who] weakened") is a character in the Hebrew bible
Book of Judges, where she is the "woman in the
valley of Sorek" whom
Samson loved, and who was his downfall. Her figure, one of several dangerous
temptresses in the
Hebrew Bible, has become emblematic: "Samson loved Delilah, she betrayed him, and, what is worse, she did it for money," Madlyn Kahr begins her study of the Delilah motif in European painting.