It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
"Delilah"  (Judges 16:4).  "This name means either `flirtatious' or `devotee,' the latter designation suggestion religious prostitution as her profession."[16]  The fact that she was also apparently of high social status and actually honored by the lords of the Philistines by their employment of her in their efforts to take Samson also support the idea that she was a temple prostitute attached to the temple of Dagon.