STRONGS NUMBER H3917


Word Summary
liyliyth: a female night-demon
Original Word: לִיִלית
Transliteration: 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

לִילִיתnoun 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.