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Delilah is usually thought to have been a Philistine, [5] although she is not identified as such in the Bible. [5] The name "Delilah" is a Hebrew name, [22] however, numerous foreigners in the Bible have Hebrew names, so Delilah's name cannot be seen as indisputable proof that she was Hebrew. [23] J.
The best known Delilah is the Biblical character. The name has been in use in the United States and United Kingdom since the mid-1600s. [ 1 ] The increase in the usage of the name in the Anglosphere has been attributed to the influence of the 2006 popular song Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's as well as its similarity in sound to other ...
The modern use derives from an account in the Hebrew Bible, in which pronunciation of this word was used to distinguish Ephraimites, whose dialect used a differently sounding first consonant. The difference concerns the Hebrew letter shin , which is now pronounced as [ʃ] (as in shoe ). [ 6 ]
Delilah (comics), a Marvel Comics character, an enemy of Spider-Man; Del Dingle (Delilah "Del" Dingle), a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale; Delilah, in the animated series Delilah & Julius; Delilah, a horse in the TV series Steptoe and Son; Delilah, a character in works by American novelist Barry Eisler
Hazzelelponi [1] (Hebrew: הַצְּלֶלְפּוֹנִי Haṣṣəlelpōnī, "the shade-facing") [2] is a biblical woman mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:3. Tzelafon ...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines hallelujah as “a song or shout of praise to God,” but biblical scholars will tell you it’s actually a smash-up of two Hebrew words: “hallel” meaning ...
As designated in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation, the standard set of symbols used to show the pronunciation of English words on Wikipedia is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The IPA has significant advantages over this respelling system, as it can be used to accurately represent pronunciations from any language in the world ...
If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one. For English words and names, pronunciation should normally be omitted for common words or when obvious from the spelling; use it only for loanwords from other languages (coup ...