According to Goldzhier, long locks of hair and a long beard are mythologic attributes of the sun.

The sun's rays are compared to long locks or hairs on the face of the sun.

When the sun sets and leaves his place to the darkness, or when the powerful summer sun is succeeded by the weak rays of the winter sun, then Samson's long locks, through which alone his strength remains, are cut off by the treachery of his deceitful concubine Delilah (the languishing, according to the meaning of the name).

The beaming Apollo was, moreover, called the "Unshaven;" and Minos cannot conquer the solar hero, Nisos, until the latter loses his golden hair.

In Arabic "Shams-on" means the sun, and Samson had seven locks of hair, the number of the planetary bodies.