ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Samson’s was involved with three women. The first was a woman from Timnah whom he married. The second woman was a harlot from Gaza, and the third was Delilah, with whom Samson fell in love.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samson possessed extraordinary physical strength, and the moral of his saga relates the disastrous loss of his power to his violation of the Nazirite vow, to which he was bound by his mother’s promise to the angel.

Detailed explanation-3: -Delilah, also spelled Dalila, in the Old Testament, the central figure of Samson’s last love story (Judges 16). She was a Philistine who, bribed to entrap Samson, coaxed him into revealing that the secret of his strength was his long hair, whereupon she took advantage of his confidence to betray him to his enemies.

Detailed explanation-4: -Samson confessed that he would lose his strength “if my head were shaved” (Judges 16:15-17). While he slept, the faithless Delilah brought in a Philistine who cut Samson’s hair, draining his strength.