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title: לִילִית — Lilith · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לִילִית (3917), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Lilith. BDB 1906: n.f. Lilith. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לִילִית

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«לִילִית» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Lilith** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3917 · **BDB:** לִילִית

### Glosses

\[the\].night-creature (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לִילִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3917/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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