Lexicon liyliyth: owl Original Word: לִילִיתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: liyliyth Phonetic Spelling: (lee-leeth') Short Definition: owl 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. 
 
 
 
  Strong's screech owl  From layil; a night spectre -- screech owl.  see HEBREW layil   |  
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