H3917

לִילִית

li.litH:N-F

night-creature

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

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

לִילִית noun feminine Lilith (Milton Che night-hag), name of a female night-demon haunting desolate Edom; probably borrowed from Babylonian, Isa 34:14 (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian lilîtu, Dl^{HWB 377}; Syriac PS¹⁹⁵¹; on the development of legends of Lilith in later Judaism, see Bux^{Lex. Talmud., under the word} Che^{on the passage} Grünbaum^{ZMG xxxi.1877, 250 f.} — Connexion with לילה perhaps only apparent, a popular etymology).

לִין see לון.

1 occurrence

Isaiah 34:14