If the Long Hair is a covering

[Praxeas]

Samson told Delilah that if his head were shaven, he would be like any other man. Does this mean that if she'd just trimmed it, he would have retained his strength? I don't know.

I think as long as his hair was cut he lost his strength. If he only trimmed his hair he broke the vow, not ended it...he violated it.

Here is another interesting thing, this word used for shave, shave off and even bald is used in reference to trimming the corners of the beard off rather than removal of the entire beard

Lev 21:5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

AMP Lev 21:5 The priests [like the other Israelite men] shall not shave the crown of their heads or clip off the corners of their beard or make any cuttings in their flesh.

See what I am saying is that the word "shave" does not necessarily have to mean "all off"

Also I am wondering what locks here means since he has seven locks...was he completely shaved or where seven groupings of hair chopped off?
machlâphâh
BDB Definition:
1) braid, lock, plait
1a) of hair

It's also possible that the custom of those people was to let it grow until shaving was necessary. There doesn't seem to be any gray area mentioned in regard to either men or women. There is either uncut or long mentioned, or shaved or shorn mentioned. I don't know why that is.

This is why I bring up this possibility linguistically/grammatically. It isn't that cut and dried as either side hopes to have it

It's too bad that I'm working so much in the next week and then taking a vacation, but when I return, I'd like to study on this a little more. Sorry if this post is jumping from point to point also....I just got home a couple hours ago after working 15 1/2 hours!

It's ok. I just wanted you to realize certain issues I was not trying to raise.

Prax, if you come across any info that I can study, I'd appreciate you supplying me with links or whatever. Thanks.

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