לִילִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3917

Lilith — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Lilith tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לִילִית: n.f. Lilith tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. Lilith (Milton Che nighthag), name of a female night-demon haunting desolate Edom; prob. borrowed from Bab., Is 34:14 (NH id.; Assyrian lilîtu, DlHWB 377; Syriac ܠܶܠܻܝܬܳܐ PS1951; on the development of legends of Lilith in later Judaism, v. Bux Lex. Talmud., s.v. Chead loc. GrünbaumZMG xxxi. 1877, 250 f.—Connexion with לילה perhaps only apparent, a popular etymology).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: [the] night-creature (1).

In the verses

Isaiah 34:14 · tree →

וּפָגְשׁ֤וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת־אִיִּ֔ים וְשָׂעִ֖יר עַל־רֵעֵ֣הוּ יִקְרָ֑א אַךְ־שָׁם֙ הִרְגִּ֣יעָה לִּילִ֔ית וּמָצְאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ מָנֽוֹחַ׃

Word for word: and they.will.meet desert-dwellers (et) hyenas and goat to companion its it.will.call surely there it.will.rest [the].night-creature and it.will.find for itself a.resting.place

JPS 1917: And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall repose there, and shall find her a place of rest.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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