Hero of the Book of Judges in the Bible, strong as long as his hair is uncut. His lover 大利拉 (Delilah) has it cut, the Philistines blind and enslave him, and he dies pulling down their temple on them.
Samson is a hero in the Bible renowned for his immense strength.
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In Judges 13–16 he tears a lion apart with his bare hands and kills a thousand 非利士人 (Philistines) with a donkey's jawbone. His name comes from the Hebrew word for 'sun'. Saint-Saëns's opera Samson and Delilah is 《参孙与大利拉》 in Chinese.
