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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 962 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELILAH , in the See also:

Bible, the heroine of See also:Samson's last love-See also:story and the cause of his downfall (Judg. xvi.). She was a See also:Philistine of Sorek (mod. Surik), See also:west of Zorah, and when her countrymen offered her an enormous bribe to betray him, she set to See also:work to find out the source of his strength. Thrice Samson scoffingly told her how he might be See also:bound, and thrice he readily See also:broke the bonds with which she had fettered him in his See also:sleep; seven See also:green See also:bow-strings, new See also:ropes, and even the braiding of his See also:hair into the See also:frame of the See also:loom failed to secure him. At length he disclosed the See also:secret of his See also:power. Delilah put him to sleep upon her See also:lap, called in a See also:man to shave off his seven locks, and this See also:time he was easily captured. See SAMSON.

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