Brown-Driver-Briggs
לִילִית noun feminine Lilith (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, Dl
HWB 377; Syriac

PS
1951; 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.