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🏷 Bible name · Samson · Semitic · pun · spook enemy · name — by Gerry · Jul
2020 · 358 words

The Biblical woman Delilah who helps defeat Samson is a pun with
“weakening” by “detaching” & “tearing off”. She is the counterpart to
Samson, whose name means “strength” through “veiling”. Delilah is
the one who lifts Samson’s veil.

Delilah is a semi-admitted pun. The root dl / dll / dldl means “to

weaken”, and Delilah’s name is sometimes interpreted as “she who
weakens”.

Delilah : The mistress of Samson who betrayed him to the

Philistines; Borrowed from Hebrew ‫( ְדּלִ ילָה‬d’līla, “[she who]
weakened”). — English (Wikt)

But that’s only half the truth: The same word root means “detaching”,
“dangling”, “tearing away”, “taking off”, “lifting up”. Since Delilah
is paired with Samson in the Biblical story, whose name puns with
“strength” & “veil”, it’s pretty clear that her meanings of “weakening”
& “taking off” are referring to lifting the veil. In the story, this is
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represented by cutting his locks, since Samson’s pun-root ṣmṣm means

both “locks” & “veil”.

In the pun-encrypted spook parable beneath, that is the advice for our
“hidden leaders”: Veiling & masking will strengthen them, because it
shields their insane corruption from us, their subjects. But whenever we
manage to take off their veil, they will be weak, because there is nothing
behind it!

Hebrew, Aramaic dl, dll, dldl = weaken, detach, lift up, tear away,
take off

‫ דיל ; דלדל‬dldl; dyl : to reduce, weaken; to loosen, detach;

loosely connected, hanging down, detached; overty-stricken,
beggarly; to become thin, sparse; to be reduced; to be detached,
loosely connected, disarranged, parted into shreds; to be
disregarded — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דלדל‬dldl : to be torn away — Aramaic (CAL)

‫ דלדל‬dldl : to become poor, neglected; to be torn loose

— Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דלל‬dll : to lift up; to thin; to lift one’s self up, be proud

— Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דלל‬dll : to be thin, swing, hang; to be poor; to thin, to take off

grapes, or take out plants — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דלל‬dll : to diminish something; to become small, to be

diminished; to become rare; to be torn loose — Aramaic (CAL)

‫ דלדל‬dldl : Qt to become minimal; to become minimal

— Aramaic (CAL)

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‫ דלילו‬dlylw : tendency, facility; tendency, weakness for

something; easily — Aramaic (CAL)

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