# Delilah (Old Testament) the Philistine lover of Samson (an Israelite servant of God whose principal aim was to free the Israelites from the yoke of the Philistines). She tricked him into telling her that the secret of his strength lay in his uncut hair and so she cut his hair while he slept and then called for the Philistines who captured and blinded him. During captivity his hair grew back and he eventually pulled the Philistines' banquet hall down on their heads.