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Strong's #3917 - לִילִית
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- "Lilith", name of a female goddess known as a night demon who haunts the desolate places of Edom
- might be a nocturnal animal that inhabits desolate places
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1265) ll (לל LL) AC: Howl CO: Night AB: ?: When the night comes, the night sky is rolled out like a scroll. When daylight comes, the night sky is rolled up like a scroll. (eng: yell)
E) all (ללא LLA) AC: ? CO: Loop AB: ?
of1 ) ealfl (לולאה LWLAH) - Loop: KJV (13): loop - Strongs: H3924 (לֻלָאוֹת)
J) lfl (לול LWL) AC: ? CO: Staircase AB: ?: A spiral set of steps.
Nm) lfl (לול LWL) - Staircase: KJV (1): winding stair - Strongs: H3883 (לוּל)
L) lli (ילל YLL) AC: Howl CO: ? AB: ?: The sound of the wolf, a night predator.
V) lli (ילל YLL) - Howl: KJV (31): (vf: Hiphil) howl, howling - Strongs: H3213 (יָלַל)
Nm) lli (ילל YLL) - Howling: KJV (1): howling - Strongs: H3214 (יְלֵל)
Nf1) elli (יללה YLLH) - Howling: KJV (5): howling - Strongs: H3215 (יְלָלָה)
im) llft (תולל TWLL) - Tormentor: KJV (1): waste - Strongs: H8437 (תּוֹלָל)
M) lil (ליל LYL) AC: ? CO: Night AB: ?
Nm ) lil (ליל LYL) - Night: KJV (233): night, season, midnight - Strongs: H3915 (לֵיל)
Nf4) tilil (לילית LYLYT) - Owl: A night creature. KJV (1): screech owl - Strongs: H3917 (לִילִית)
ff1) ilil (לילי LYLY) - Night: [Aramaic only] KJV (5): night - Strongs: H3916 (לֵילֵי)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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.1877,250f. — Connexion with לילה perhaps only apparent, a popular etymology). לִין see לון.
לִילִית f. prop. nocturna (from לַיִל, with the adj. term. fem. ־ִית), a nocturnal spectre, which had, according to the rabbins, the form of a beautiful woman, and lay wait for children by night. [All this is utterly absurd when thus connected with the nature of something real mentioned in Scripture; what it is, may be doubtful.] Like this are the Greek and Roman fables about the woman Ἔμπουσα, about the ὀνοκένταυροι (see Arist. Ran. 293; Creuzer, Comment. Herod. page 267), the Lamiæ, the Striges, and the Arabian fables about the Ghûles (الغول, الغولة), i.e. female monsters inhabiting deserts, and tearing men in pieces. Compare other names of spectres, עֲלוּקָה, שְׁעִירִים. Isaiah 34:14. More may be seen in Bochart, in Hieroz. vol. ii. page 831; Buxtorf, in Lexicon Ch., and Talmud. page 1140, and in my Comment. on Isaiah 13:22, 34:14. [It is really lamentable that any one could connect the word of God with such utter absurdity; many understand the nocturnal creature spoken of to be simply the screech owl.]
