It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
"Eleven hundred pieces of silver"  (Judges 16:5).  According to Strahan, this was, "The equivalent of $150 English pounds, as of 1925."[17] On that date the English pound was valued at about $5.00, meaning that the price the lords of the Philistines agreed to pay Delilah was about $3,750.00, which was a major fortune in antiquity.