Lexical Summary liyliyth: a female night-demon Original Word: לִיִליתTransliteration: liyliyth Phonetic Spelling: (lee-leeth') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a female night-demon Meaning: a female night-demon Strong's Concordance screech owl From layil; a night spectre -- screech owl. see HEBREW layil Brown-Driver-Briggs H3917. liyliyth 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, 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. |
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