Delilah

A Philistine woman in the Book of Judges talks a strongman into revealing the source of his strength, and then picks up the shears — Delilah is one of scripture's most famously dangerous figures, and the name has never quite shed its seductive shadow. The Hebrew Delilah has been connected to a root meaning "delicate" or "languishing," though centuries of storytelling have colored it in deeper tones. Tom Jones sang about her in 1968, and parents came around a generation later; Delilah now sits at rank 50 in the United States. Three syllables, all soft consonants and liquid L's. Biblical, gothic, and luxuriously musical to say aloud.