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# לִילִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3917

**Lilith** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Lilith [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3917/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לִילִית: n.f. Lilith [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3917/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Lilith (Milton Che nighthag), name of a female night-demon haunting desolate Edom; prob. borrowed from Bab., Is 34:14 (NH id.; Assyrian lilîtu, DlHWB 377; Syriac ܠܶܠܻܝܬܳܐ PS1951; on the development of legends of Lilith in later Judaism, v. Bux Lex. Talmud., s.v. Chead loc. GrünbaumZMG xxxi. 1877, 250 f.—Connexion with לילה perhaps only apparent, a popular etymology).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] night-creature (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 34:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.14/#tree)

וּפָגְשׁ֤וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת־אִיִּ֔ים וְשָׂעִ֖יר עַל־רֵעֵ֣הוּ יִקְרָ֑א אַךְ־שָׁם֙ הִרְגִּ֣יעָה לִּילִ֔ית וּמָצְאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ מָנֽוֹחַ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.meet desert-dwellers (et) hyenas and goat to companion its it.will.call surely there it.will.rest \[the\].night-creature and it.will.find for itself a.resting.place

*JPS 1917:* And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall repose there, and shall find her a place of rest.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3917/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).