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[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

What are your opinions on the name Delilah?

My fiancé suggested it while listening to Hey There Delilah.

It's really starting to grow on me despite seeming really frilly and girly. The only other negative to me is the sappy radio show host.

I think I like it. A lot actually.

Opinion?

Comments

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I love the name actually.

but i don't like the recent popularity of it, or the biblical story behind it. also, besides being a plain white t's sond, it is a grateful dead song too. don't know if any of those things would bother you.... :)

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

What's the biblical story behind it?
I know I've heard Samson and Delilah before, but have no clue who either were.
I don't know much about the bible, obviously. =)

Never heard the Grateful Dead song. I don't even think I can name one of their song. I think that's pretty sad.

[asscollection.livejournal.com]

Samson was an Israelite who was gifted with Herculean strenght by God. When he was born, his mother was instructed to never cut his hair, b/c that was the source of his strength. Long story short, Samson falls in love with a Philistine (Philistines are a big ol' enemy in the Old Testament; Goliath = also Philistine) woman named Delilah, who tries to find out the source of Samson's strength and take it away. Eventually she coerces him into telling her, and she has his head shaved and he is captured and is killed later when his hair grows back and he knocks down the Philistine temple.

This is what I get for my mom being a minister! Blah.

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thanks for filling me in! =)

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

She was basically a back-stabbing whore. Too bad, though, since Delilah is sort of a pretty name.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Not if you listen to Regina Spektor's take on the situation, in the song "Samson"... it's an alternate telling.

[http://users.livejournal.com/--zoomzoom/]

i was going to suggest the same thing♥ =D

[prlsb4swiine.livejournal.com]

cringe.
that song is so over played.

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

Cringe at the name or the song or both?

Yes, I agree, but so is just about every song on the radio. =/

[prlsb4swiine.livejournal.com]

both 0_o

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know the story behind it.
I have a feeling most people around here would though.

[tokossel.livejournal.com]

i thought that was jezebel?

haha, delilah was the woman who seduced samson and then cut off all his hair to get rid of his strength. slightly evil, yes, but feisty is always good methinks...haha. i've loved it for years, since i was 15...and i'm 22 now.

there's also an annoying song by tom jones called 'delilah' and one by the cranberries too.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

haha, that WAS jezebel! ;) delilah was the biblical whore....

[trtlstars.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, where I grew up there was a strip club around there called Delilah's Den and I can't get over that...

[bo-has-a-boner.livejournal.com]

We were going to choose Delilah if we had a girl, but we had a boy..

I say go for it!!

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

We might end up using it since it is the only girls name we can agree on. =)

[jojodancer77.livejournal.com]

I like it..

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

I've always liked it, it's very cute without being obscenely so.

[asscollection.livejournal.com]

I love the name, but I personally wouldn't because of the negative biblical associations, because I'm a big dork. I'm not even religious myself, but my mom would be like O_O. It sucks because some of the more interesting, prettier female names in the Bible are those of villians.

But you know, if it doesn't matter to YOU, I say go for it!!

[spelslikesheet.livejournal.com]

I think the name is beautiful. Who cares where it originated from. :)

[child-of-eru.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty... although, now that you mention the dj- 'De-li-LAH!' -sing-songy voice-

But really, it doesn't matter. It's a lovely name. If you like it 'a lot,' why not?

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks, now De-li-LAH keeps going through my head. =P

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

I don't really like the name.

[iceni.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't use it because of the story behind Delilah. I take it you also know the very famous Tom Jones record 'Delilah'?.

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[iceni.livejournal.com]

http://www.codehot.co.uk/lyrics/qrst/tomjones/delilah.htm

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Also thought of Tom Jones! That and the Anne of Green Gables series, where Anne's daughter makes a friend called Delilah. Delilah in the book is all proud of having a Biblical name but is of course a scheming, nasty priss.

[scouty.livejournal.com]

oh its one of my fave names !!

I really like it !

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

NO WAY! Just HOURS ago i was listening to that song and thinking about Delilah as a name!!!

I think it's way cute :)

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to post about for awhile now, but I always forget.

I think it's cute too.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Also, i don't think i would ever not use a name i love because it was also the name of "such and such" who did this way back whenever.
No name you choose will ever have 100% positive conotations!

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

It doesn't bother me. I'm not religious at all, I didn't even know the story.

I named my son Damien despite everyone commenting about The Omen. I love that name for years there was no way I wasn't going to use it. =)

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

Well.. now that you say that.. I don't think it's the best idea to name your daughter Delilah if you already have a son named Damien. On their own, they're very nice names. But the two together... I just picture a lot of eyebrows raising when you tell people your kids' names together. They both happen to be the names of two very evil entities, and many would get that connotation. But I don't know... it depends on where you live, and if people would care about it or not. All in all, it's up to you. I just wish people would learn to drop biblical connotations when it comes to names.

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

I really like it. When I hear the name, the song immediately gets into my head. Not exactly a bad thing.

If I didn't keep thinking of the biblical story, I might consider. Granted, I'm not religious at all (equivalent to rock, to give you an idea) but I do know it. And I think it'd be kind of awful.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

I hate that song; I kind of ruined it for me.

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

i think it's so cute:)

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

It sounds exotic, but it's got a bad connotation because of the Bible. Delilah is known as a seducer, a liar, and a temptress.

[in_excelsis_dea.livejournal.com]

I like it, but I couldn't use it. I think it would be a great villain name, but on a baby? We're a pretty religious family and I don't think it would work very well. Pity, because I do think it's pretty.

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

My mom's college roommate was named Delilah. I think it's cute. Most connotations kind of lose their impact when a name is on a real person.
I think Damien is the same way. And even though both names have somewhat negative connotations (though the name from the Omen won't make any difference at all in like five years, so that doesn't matter), they come from different places. I don't think people would hear, "these are my children, Damien and Delilah," and think, "oh man, we're not going to have a playgroup with the evil kids."
Maybe if they were both horror-movie names or if you named your kids Jezebel and Delilah, where the source is the same.
My point is that I wouldn't worry about it.

[daveandmonika.livejournal.com]

Samson and Delilah in all it's biblical glory...my favorite line in bold:

Judges 16:4-21
4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver."

6 So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."

7 Samson answered her, "If anyone ties me with seven fresh thongs that have not been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man."

8 Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh thongs that had not been dried, and she tied him with them. 9 With men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the thongs as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

10 Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied."

11 He said, "If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I'll become as weak as any other man."

12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

13 Delilah then said to Samson, "Until now, you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied."
He replied, "If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man." So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric 14 and tightened it with the pin.
Again she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.

15 Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength." 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.

17 So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on my head," he said, "because I have been a Nazirite set apart to God since birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man."

18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, "Come back once more; he has told me everything." So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. 19 Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.

20 Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!"
He awoke from his sleep and thought, "I'll go out as before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.

21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison.

[super-bitch06.livejournal.com]

o_O What's Samson's problem? He knew she was trying to eliminate his source of power, yet he allowed himself to be guilt into telling her how to do it? He sounds like a bit of a moron....

I'm completely non-religious, so I have to say, I'd totally take Delilah's side on this. She set a goal for herself and worked until she accomplished it. She's determined and, if you take the Philistines point of view, successful! I don't see any negative connotation there :)


To the OP: I say use the name. Religious connotations aside, it's a beautiful name, one of my favorites.