Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #3917 - לִיִלית liyliyth (a female night-demon)


Original Word:לִיִלית
Transliteration: liyliyth
Definition:a female night-demon
Part of Speech:Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:(lee-leeth')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

screech owl

From layil; a night spectre -- screech owl.

see HEBREW layil


Englishman's Concordance

1) “Lilith”, name of a female goddess known as a night demon who haunts the desolate places of Edom
1a) might be a nocturnal animal that inhabits desolate places
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3915
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1112

Brown-Driver-Briggs

לִילִיתnoun feminineLilith (Milton Che night-hag), name of a female night-demon haunting desolate Edom; probably borrowed from Babylonian, Isaiah 34:14 (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian lilîtu, DlHWB 377; Syriac PS1951; on the development of legends of Lilith in later Judaism, see BuxLex. Talmud., under the word Cheon the passage GrünbaumZMG xxxi.1877, 250 f. — Connexion with לילה perhaps only apparent, a popular etymology).

לִין see לון.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3917. לִילִית (liyliyth) — 1 Occurrence

Isaiah 34:14
HEB:שָׁם֙ הִרְגִּ֣יעָה לִּילִ֔ית וּמָצְאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ
NAS: Yes, the night monster will settle
KJV: to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest
INT: there will settle the night and will find A resting

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