Samson and Delilah by Tintoretto (1518–1594)

Delilah or (דְּלִילָה, Standard Hebrew meaning "[One who] weakened or uprooted or impoverished" from the root dal meaning "weak or poor". Also: Dəlila, Tiberian Hebrew Dəlîlāh; Arabic Dalilah), was the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall, in the Hebrew Bible Book of Judges (Chapter 16). "Samson loved Delilah, she betrayed him, and, what is worse, she did it for money", Madlyn Kahr began her study of the Delilah motif in European painting.^[1] samson and delilah painted by tintoretto This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... samson and delilah painted by tintoretto This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Tiberian Hebrew is an oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient forms of Hebrew, especially the Hebrew of the Bible, that was given written form by masoretic scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias in the early middle ages, beginning in the 8th century. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... The Brook of Sorek, also called the Valley of Sorek, (in Hebrew nachal sorek), mentioned in the Book of Judges 16:4 of the Hebrew Bible, is probably a point on the border between the ancient Philistines and the Tribe of Dan of the ancient Israelites. ... Samson and Delilah, by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) This article is about Biblical figure. ... 11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum This article is about the term Hebrew Bible. For the Hebrew Bible itself, see Tanakh (Jewish term) or Old Testament (Christian term). ... Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטים) is a book of the Bible originally written in Hebrew. ...

Delilah was approached by the Philistines, the enemies of Israel, to discover the secret of Samson's strength. Three times she asked Samson for the secret of his strength, and three times he gave her a false answer. On the fourth occasion he gave her the true reason: that he did not cut his hair in fulfillment of a vow to God; and Delilah betrayed him to his enemies. Map showing the location of Philistine land and cities of Gaza, Ashdod, and Ashkelon Map of the southern Levant, c. ...

Some consider that one of the false secrets given by Samson, that his strength would leave him if his hair was woven into a cloth, is reminiscent of arcane woman's magic of the art of weaving that is also inherent in the myths of Penelope, Circe, Arachne.^[2] "Sorek" or "soreq" is only specifically identified as being a place in the Samson story. Jerome mentions a "Capharsorec" that was near Saraa. Modern Israel has a Soreq Valley and even a Sorek Vineyard (since 1994/5) producing Merlot. Soreq, however, is the grapevine itself in Genesis 49:11, Isaiah 5:2, and Jeremiah 2:21. Samson had been dedicated as a Nazarite, "from the womb to the day of his death"; thus he was forbidden to touch wine or cut his hair.^[3] Delilah may be a "vine-woman" (compare the mythic Greek name Oenone), personifying the womanly temptations of the vine that would betray his Nazarite dedication. Penelope represented as a statue in the Vatican, Rome For other uses, see Penelope (disambiguation). ... Image:Circe - Edward Burne-Jones - Project Gutenberg eText 13725. ... 19th century rendition of the metamorphosis of Arachné into an eight-legged monster, by Gustave Doré // The Story The fable of Arachne (also Arachné) is a late addition to Greek mythology, recorded in Ovid, Metamorphoses. ... “Saint Jerome” redirects here. ... A Nazarite or Nazirite, Nazir in Hebrew, was a Jew who took an ascetic vow described in the Book of Numbers at 6:1-21. ... In Greek mythology, Oenone (wine woman) was the first wife of Paris. ...

For Christians the story of Samson and Delilah is an example of Paul's dictum, "It is good for a man not to touch a woman." (I Corinthians 7:1) and the Christian portrayal of woman as a snare for man: this warning is usually the uppermost theme in Western representations, where Delila is the natural embodiment of the Deadly Sin of Luxuria.^[4]. Petrarch instanced Samson and Delilah in his Trionfi, as a victim in his allegorical depiction of the Triumph of Love. Somewhat inappropriately it would seem to a modern eye, the theme was depicted on more than one fifteenth-century Tuscan painted marriage tray. In the North, the Late Gothic theme of Weibermacht, of the dangerous strength of women, included in the series a conventional scene of a seated Delilah, with Samson asleep in her lap, shearing the "seven locks" from his head: the woodcut by Master E.S. might be a scene of courtly love, Madlyn Kahr has remarked, save for the ominous scissors in Delilah's hand. Cardinal sin redirects here. ... Court of Love in Provence in the 14th Century (after a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). ...

Samson and Delilah, by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)

A small grisaille panel by Andrea Mantegna^[5] in the National Gallery, London places the duo beneath a dead tree wound about with a luxurious vine (the debilitating power of the fruitful woman) and a fountain that overflows and seeps away into the ground, with undertones of unbridled sexual appetite. In Northern Europe the Delilah theme was more prominent among painters like Lucas van Leiden and Maerten van Heemskerck, who made a large woodcut of the subject after Titian. Tintoretto followed Titian in introducing a female accomplice of Delilah's; Rubens added further females, with a suggestion of a brothel, and came back to the subject several times. No major seventeenth-century artist approached the subject more often than Rembrandt.^[6] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3200x1820, 671 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Samson Delilah ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3200x1820, 671 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Samson Delilah ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Anton) van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England. ... Grisaille (Fr. ... The Agony in the Garden (1455) is the pinnacle of Mantegnas early style. ... The National Gallery from Trafalgar Square The National Gallery is an art gallery in London, located on the north side of Trafalgar Square. ... Lucas van Leyden (b. ... Marten Heemskerk self-portrait (detail) Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen or Maarten van Heemskerck (1498, Heemskerk – October 1, 1574, Haarlem), was one of the leading Dutch portrait and religious painters of the sixteenth century, famous for his depictions of the Seven Wonders of the World. ... Titians self-portrait, 1566. ... Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. ... Rubens may be: Look up Rubenesqe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606– October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. ...

John Milton personified her as the misguided and foolish but sympathetic temptress, much like his view of Eve, in his 1671 work Samson Agonistes^{[citation needed]}. By the time of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila (1877) Delilah has become the eponym of a "Delilah", a treacherous and cunning femme fatale. For other persons named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation). ... Michelangelos Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel. ... An Etching of Samson, from an 1882 German Bible Samson Agonistes (Greek: Samson the agonist) is a work of blank verse tragedy by John Milton. ... Charles Camille Saint-Sa ns (IPA: [ʃaʁl. ... This article or section should be merged with Samson and Delilah (opera) Samson et Dalila is an opera in three acts (or four tableaux) composed by Camille Saint-Saëns, initially in 1866 to 1868, and reworked from 1873 to 1877. ... An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, which has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery or other item. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Notes

The theme of weaving in mythology is ancient, and its lost mythic lore probably accompanied the early spread of this mysterious art. ...

Film, Television and Music

• Delilah has been portrayed on film and television by among others Hedy Lamarr, Rosalba Neri, Elizabeth Hurley and Belinda Bauer. She was also mentioned in a song in The Phantom of the Opera and in the song Someday We'll Know by the New Radicals.

• The fact that Delilah did not do the actual cutting of Samson's hair is an issue in a scene in Delbert Mann's film, Fitzwilly (1967).

• In The Dresden Dolls song called "Delilah", she's referred to as 'a sucker for the ones who use her'.

• Neil Sedaka wrote a song titled "Run, Samson, Run", a short and upbeat re-telling of his story, and in the end he warns all men "there's a little of Delilah in each and every gal."

• In The HBO series Carnivale, Delilah is the bearded-woman of the sideshow. She often shown butting heads with the carivan's leader Samson.

• The song Hair by PJ Harvey is about the story of Samson and Delilah.

• Fields of the Nephilim refer to Delilah within the song "At The Gates Of Silent Memory" from the Elizium album

• Regina Spektor's song "Samson" tells his story and directly refers to the cutting of his hair

• Bob Dylan's song, Tombstone Blues, on his Highway 61 Revisited album, makes reference to Delilah, ('The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone/ Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown/ At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone/ But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter').

• A Simpsons episode from the second season was named "Simpson and Delilah."

• The U2 song Mysterious ways is about Delilah.

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian/Jewish-American actress and communications technology innovator. ... Rosalba Neri ( sometimes credited as Sara Bey or Sara Bay) was born on June 19, 1939 in Furli (Emilia Romagna), Italy. ... Elizabeth Jane Hurley (b. ... Belinda Bauer (born January 1, 1951) is an Australian actress whose promising career never led to super-stardom. ... This article is about the Gaston Leroux novel. ... Someday Well Know is a song by the New Radicals. ... The New Radicals were an American rock band active in the late 1990s, centered on front man Gregg Alexander, who wrote and produced all of their songs and was the sole constant member. ... Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Fitzwilly is a 1967 film by Delbert Mann, based on Poyntz Tylers novel, A Garden of Cucumbers, adapted for the screen by Isobel Lennart. ... The Dresden Dolls are a two-piece band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed mid-2001 and made up of singer/pianist Amanda Palmer and drummer/occasional guitarist and vocalist Brian Viglione. ... Carniv le is an American dramatic television series produced by HBO. Created by Daniel Knauf, it stars Nick Stahl and Clancy Brown. ... Recorded at the Icehouse, Yeovil, UK, PJ Harveys Dry was released twice, firstly on Too Pure accompanied with a limited edition Demonstration LP & also as a very limited 80 minute CD, and subsequently on Indigo Records. ... PJ Harvey in concert. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941), is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Simpsons Season 2 DVD. The Simpsons 2nd season (October 1990 - May 1991) began on October 11, 1990. ... Simpson and Delilah is the second episode of The Simpsons second season, airing on October 18, 1990. ...

External links

• Hebrew concordance with Strong's Dictionary: '"soreq"
• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: "Sorek, Valley of"; asserting connections with specific sites